Petroleum Exploration

Audrey W. Dimalibot
  It is the process of exploring for oil and
gas resources in the earth’s sedimentary
basins.
 The process relies on the methodical
Petroleum application of technology by creative
Exploration geoscientists that leads to
viable prospects to drill and the actual
drilling of these prospects with
exploratory and appraisal wells.
 Petroleum
Exploration

Petroleum Surface
Methods
Geophysical
Surveys

Exploration
Petroleum Field Aerial
Magnetic Gravity Seismic
Seep Geology Survey
  A place where natural liquid or
gaseous hydrocarbons escape to the
earth's atmosphere and surface, normally
under low pressure or flow
 The hydrocarbons may escape
along geological layers, or across them
Petroleum Seep through fractures and fissures in the rock,
or directly from an outcrop of oil-bearing
rock.
 Natural products associated with these
seeps
include bitumen, pitch, asphalt and tar.
  A petroleum seep occurs as a result of the seal
above the reservoir being breached, causing
tertiary migration of hydrocarbons towards the
surface under the influence of the
Petroleum Seep
associated buoyancy force. The seal is
Formation breached due to the effects of overpressure
adding to the buoyancy force, overcoming the
capillary resistance that initially kept the
hydrocarbons sealed.
Petroleum Seep
  traditional method of finding oil
 mapping the surface geology and
studying the relationship to geological
Field Geology units
 to predict and understand the types of
rock in the subsurface
  Geologic maps represent the distribution
of different types of rock and surficial
Geological Map deposits, as well as locations of geologic
structures such as faults and folds
  Aerial survey is conducted by remote
sensing. A geological method that used in
order to extract geological information
from remote sensing image. A remote
Aerial Survey sensing images analysis can be carried
out with geomorphologic information,
structure, and to define rock type
classification.