In order to ensure hydrocarbon delivery, companies in the exploration and production business have to deal with more challenging and complex reservoirs in hostile environments. Reservoir characterization in conjunction with reservoir management focuses on the accurate description and most effecient as well as economic development of these resources. In order to ensure the best possible utilization of the technologies that evolved along with the increasing reservoir complexity, the concept of integrated teams was developed by the industry. In this changed work environment, team members have to provide skills that cross the typical discipline boundaries. The development of a reservoir characterization course, which can be used to acquire interdisciplinary competencies and the associated knowledge transfer, is the main objective of this thesis. The basis represents a characterization of a clastic reservoir applying state of the art methods and software suites. In this regard, data gathering as well as quality control, the construction of a geological model, upscaling in a coarser simualtion model and subsequent simulation along with history matching are covered. The final stage represents the field development and production optimization. All processes have been thorougly documented and serve as a code of practice for the participants and instructor in the reconstruction of the generated reference models as well as realization of the reservoir characterization course.