OG90
Course Contents
Module 1: Petroleum Geology Foundations and Basin Framework
Key Topics
- Role of petroleum geology in exploration and production
- Geological time, plate tectonics, and basin formation
- Sedimentary basins and hydrocarbon habitat
- Rock types and their petroleum significance
- Structural geology: folds, faults, and fractures
- Geological maps, cross-sections, and subsurface models
- Overview of conventional and unconventional resources
Module 2: Petroleum Systems: Source, Migration and Timing
Key Topics
- Petroleum system elements and critical processes
- Source rock types, organic matter, and kerogen quality
- Burial history, maturation, and hydrocarbon generation
- Primary and secondary migration pathways
- Oil, gas, and condensate accumulation concepts
- Timing of generation, migration, and trap formation
- Petroleum system risk and charge evaluation
Module 3: Reservoirs, Seals and Depositional Environments
Key Topics
- Clastic reservoirs: fluvial, deltaic, shoreface, and deepwater
- Carbonate reservoirs: platforms, reefs, and diagenetic controls
- Reservoir quality: porosity, permeability, and pore systems
- Diagenesis, cementation, compaction, and dissolution effects
- Seal rocks, capillary pressure, and containment capacity
- Stratigraphic correlation and depositional facies analysis
- Core description and geological input to reservoir models
Module 4: Traps, Mapping and Subsurface Data Integration
Key Topics
- Structural traps, stratigraphic traps, and combination traps
- Fault sealing, spill points, and closure assessment
- Horizon mapping and depth structure interpretation
- Seismic data use in geological interpretation
- Well logs, formation tops, and lithology interpretation
- Integrating core, log, seismic, and pressure data
- Uncertainty in geological maps and subsurface models
Module 5: Reservoir Evaluation, Field Development and Risk
Key Topics
- Geological controls on reservoir performance and recovery
- Play, lead, and prospect evaluation workflow
- Volumetric estimation and geological input parameters
- Static reservoir modelling concepts and workflows
- Geological risks in drilling and field development
- Petroleum geology in mature fields and redevelopment
- Final case review and practical geological action planning