Description
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
- About plate tectonics and petroleum
- About geological time and history
- The fundamentals of rock formation and deformation
- The essentials of various depositional environments and the reservoirs created by them
- The distribution of porosity and permeability in reservoirs produced in different depositional environments
- How rock characteristics are related to modern geological processes and applied to the ancient record
- About petroleum reservoir and source rocks of petroleum origin, migration, and trapping
- How to correlate electric logs and recognize depositional environments on logs
- How to make contour maps and cross-sections
- Elements of geophysics and exploration
- How geology bears directly on engineering practices
Outline
- Minerals and rocks
- Plate tectonics
- Geological time
- Weathering and erosion
- Deposition
- Diagenesis
- Reservoirs
- Structural geology and petroleum
- Origin, migration, and trapping of petroleum
