You will learn

How to:

• Understands the nature of hydrocarbons.
• Understands the Basic Dynamics of Sedimentary Basins
• Knows the physical concepts related to the subsurface environment of a reservoir.
• Understands the basic concepts the Petroleum Play, Generation, Migration, Reservoir, Trap and Seal
• Knows the kinds of methods of exploration.
• Knows the trap forming mechanisms in different tectonic settings.

Content

Sedimentary basins

• Mechanisms of basin formation
• Classification of sedimentary basins
• The Sedimentary Basin Fill Sediment supply, Subsidence and Basin Fill Starving and Overfeeding Up-and Out-building (aggradation & progradation)
• Basins and Tectonic Plate margins
• Sequence Stratigraphy

The Nature of Hydrocarbons.

• Carbon and Organic matter
• Crude Oil, Natural Gas and others
• Sedimentation rates and Organic Matter Instantaneous and average rates Organic matter: Supply and Preservation

Introduction to the Elements of the Petroleum Play

• The Petroleum Charge: Source, Migration and Preservation Source rocks, quality and maturation Expulsion and migration pathways, timing
• The Reservoir types, Geometry and Continuity Porosity, Permeability, and Pressures,
• The Trap types and statistics
• The Seal The mechanics of sealing Geometry of the trap and sealing requirements
• Non-conventional Petroleum & Gas System

Methods of exploration

• Well drilling
• Geophysical methods of exploration.
• Subsurface geological maps

Structural Styles.

 

• Overview of the principal structural styles (extensional, compressional, strike-slip & salt tectonics),

 

Software applications:

• Microsoft Office

Text and consulting books:

• “Elements of Petroleum Geology” Richard C. Selley Academic Press. 1998
• “Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology” John M. Hunt W.H. Freeman, 1996
• “Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping” D. J. Tearpock and R.E. Bischke Prentice Hall, 1991