Basic Petroleum Geology
Candidates:
Exploration and production geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir drilling and production engineers who want to understand the role of geosciences in the Petroleum Industry.
Summary:
The course is designed in a workshop environment with a set of exercises covering all types of data that the geoscientists deal with on a daily basis including: logs, core, seismic lines and surface outcrops analysis. The course emphasizes on the classification of sedimentary basins, the origin and chemical composition of petroleum, the source rock, the reservoirs (carbonate and clastics) the different types of traps (structural, stratigraphic and combination).
Contents:
- Introduction
- Surface & subsurface geology
- Depositional environments
- Structural geology
- Origin of oil
- Source rock potential
- Traps
- Geophysics in exploration & development
- Well logging
- Reservoir rock properties
- Reserve calculation
- Middle east oil & gas fields