PETR 6364/5364: Origin and Development of Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Lecturer: Dr. John B. Thuren
Course Outline
1 Introduction
1.1 Conformance to Geology
The underlying reasoning
process
2 The Team
2.1 The Engineers position in
the scheme of things.
3 Planetary Origin
3.1 Geologic Structure
3.2 The Fossil Record
Petroleum Composition
Darcy's Law
The Concept of Petroleum Traps
Sandstones/Carbonates
Depositional Environments
4 Geological Approaches to
Finding Traps
4.1 The occurrence of
Petroleum
Elastic & Plastic Rock
Migration
5 Touching the Reservoir
5.1 Core Analysis
5.2 Well Logging Techniques
The Geophysical Viewpoint
Acoustic Logging
Course Description: This course will explore in
a broad but comprehensive way the engineers
role in changing an in-situ petroleum accumula-
tion into an available reservoir and reserve from
which petroleum can be extracted. In order to
benefit the engineer, the company, the country
and in fact all mankind.
Prerequisites: Senior or Graduate Standing
Textbook: Stoneley, R.: Introduction to Petroleum
Exploration for Non-Geologists, Oxford
University Press, 1995
6 Assessment of what you have.
6.1 Porosity
6.2 Permeability
6.3 Saturation
Interpretation Techniques
Using Reservoir Visualization
Horizontal Wells
7 Statistical Help
7.1 Statistical Distributions
Barchart Generation
Cumulative Relative Frequency
Geostatistics
8 Seismic Exploration
8.1 2D, 3D and 4D Surveys
Sources and Receivers
Wave Velocity Contrasts
Computer Interpretation
Survey and Drill Concept
9 Reservoir Models
9.1 Reservoir Model Generation
Project Flow
History Matching
Streamline Modeling
10 Course Review
10.1 Questions, Discussion, Comments
Final Examination