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7 - OGE-E Oil & Gas - Exploration
OGE-E 103 - Petroleum Geology
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Course Description
Basic Petroleum Geology training course presents the fundamentals of geology in terms of environments of sedimentary deposition, petroleum occurrence, exploration, and recovery of oil and gas. The training provides an integrated overview of petroleum geology concepts, operational petroleum geology applications and methods for geology students and petroleum professionals who require a basic understanding of geological concepts.
Course Objectives
- Summarize the fundamentals of Geology
- Understanding Sedimentary Petrology, Sedimentary Structures and Sedimentary Environments
- Learning about reservoir geology
- Discussing wireline/MWD logs in formation evaluation
- Introducomg Geophysics and Geochemistry
Who Should Attend?
- Well site, rig site geologist
- Drilling engineers
- Formation evaluation geologist
- Exploration and development geologist
- Petrophysist
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Sedimentary petrology
- Clastic and Carbonate Petrology
- Evaporites
- Color of Sedimentary Rocks
- Standardization of Color Descriptions
Day 2
- Sedimentary structures & Sedimentary Environments
- Primary Bedding Structures
- Post Depositional Deformed Bedding
- Erosional Structures
- Bio-genic Sedimentary Structures
- Self-Check Exercises: Sedimentary Structures
- Facies and Facies Sequences
- Continental Environments
- Barrier Island and Near Shore Environments
- Deltaic Environments
- Submarine Fans and Turbidites
- Carbonate Environments
Day 3
- Reservoir Geology & Wireline/MWD Logs in Formation Evaluation
- Physical Characteristics
- Reservoir Pressure
- Reservoir Fluids
- Natural Gas
- Reservoir Water
- The Trap
- Natural Drive Mechanisms
- Reservoir Maps
- Self-Check Exercises: Reservoir Geology
- Basic Logging Parameters
- Formation Boundaries
- Lithology Determination Using Logs
- Facies and Depositional Environment Analysis
Day 4
- Introduction to Seismic Surveying & Introduction to Geochemistry
- The Seismic Wave
- The Seismic Section
- What Is the Overall Geologic Picture?
- Sources of Petroleum
- Depositional Environments
- Kerogen
- Stages of Petroleum Maturation
- Gas Products Formed During Hydrocarbon Generation
- The Oil Window
- Methods of Source Rock Evaluation
- Subsurface Geochemical Logging
- Interpretation Problems
Day 5
- Well Testing
- Drillstem Tests.
- Pressure Recording Devices
- Standard, Single Packer Drillstem Test Procedure
- Variations on the 'standard' Test
- Modern Techniques
- Wireline Formation Tests
- Applications & Interpretations
- Fluid Analysis
- Pressure Build-up Theory
- Safety Precautions When Testing
- Reporting Systems
