GEOL 430 PETROLEUM
GEOLOGY
FALL 1998
Lecture: Monday
- Wednesday - Friday, 11:00-11:50 AM, Strong 140
Laboratory:
Monday, 12:00 - 1:50 PM, Strong 140
Office Hours:
Mon - Wed - Fri: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Wed: Noon - 3:00 PM, Mon: 2:00
PM - 3:30 PM, and by appointment
Required Text:
Selley, Richard C., 1998, Elements of petroleum geology: 2nd
edition, Academic Press, 471p.
Lectures:
- 9/02: Introduction
- 9/07: No Class - Labor Day
- 9/09: A brief history of oil and gas exploration (Chapter
1)
- 9/14: Carbon and the origin of life
- 9/16: Properties of petroleum (Chapter 2)
- 9/21: Properties of petroleum (Chapter 2)
- 9/23: Products of petroleum; Refining petroleum
- 9/28: Exam #1
- 9/30: Generation and migration of petroleum (Chapter 5)
- 10/05: Generation and migration of petroleum (Chapter 5)
- 10/07: Traps and seals (Chapter 7)
- 10/12: Traps; Reservoirs and reservoir engineering (Chapter
6)
- 10/14: Reservoirs and reservoir engineering (Chapter 6)
- 10/19: Exam #2
- 10/21: Wireline log analysis: caliper and resistivity (Chapter
3)
- 10/26: Wireline log analysis: resistivity (Chapter 3)
- 10/28: Wireline log analysis: gamma ray and spontaneous
potential (Chapter 3)
- 11/02: Wireline log analysis: sonic, density, and neutron
(Chapter 3)
- 11/04: Geophysical methods: an overview
- 11/09: Seismology (Chapter 3)
- 11/11: Seismology (Chapter 3)
- 11/16: Seismology (Chapter 3)
- 11/18: Exam #3
- 11/23: Drilling and completions
- 11/25: Reserve estimates
- 11/30: Production: primary, secondary, and tertiary
- 12/02: Economics (Chapter 10)
- 12/07: Economics (Chapter 10)
- 12/09: Wellsite
- 12/18: Exam #4
Laboratories:
- 9/02: No labs this week
- 9/07: No labs this week
- 9/14: Contouring: mechanical and parallel methods
- 9/21: Contouring: equal spaced and interpretative methods
- 9/28: Integrated fault and structure contour maps
- 10/05: Lecture goes through lab
- 10/12: Lecture goes through lab
- 10/19: Determination of gas reserves using material
balance
- 10/26: Stratigraphic correlations using wireline logs
- 11/02: Calculation of hydrocarbon saturatiom
- 11/09: Seismic interpretation
- 11/16: Seismic interpretation
- 11/23: Determination of HC in place using contour maps (due
12/7, 40pts)
- 11/30: Reserves and economics (due 12/18, 40 pts)
- 12/07: Collect and review HC in place lab
- 12/18: Collect economics lab
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