Basic Petroleum Geology

Description

The course is designed for those with no technical training (and
those who studiously avoided science in school). Primary objectives of the
course are to broaden your geological vocabulary, explain selected geological
principles and processes, and describe how certain petroleum reservoirs and
source rocks are formed.

Who should Attend

Petroleum industry personnel in need of basic geological training,
including engineering, geophysical, technical support, and administrative
personnel.

What you will learn

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About plate tectonics and petroleum

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About geological time and history

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The fundamentals of rock formation and deformation

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The essentials of various depositional environments
and the reservoirs created by them

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The distribution of porosity and
permeability in reservoirs produced in different depositional environments

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How rock characteristics are related to modern
geological processes and applied to the ancient record

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About petroleum reservoir and
source rocks of petroleum origin, migration,
and trapping

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How to correlate electric logs and recognize
depositional environments on logs

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How to make contour maps and cross sections

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Elements of geophysics and exploration

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How geology bears directly on engineering practices

Outline

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Minerals and rocks

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Plate tectonics

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Geological time

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Weathering and erosion

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Deposition

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Diagenesis

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Reservoirs

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Structural geology and petroleum

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Origin, migration, and trapping of petroleum