Undergraduate Course: Hydrocarbon Reservoir Quality (EASC10015)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Geosciences |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Earth Science |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This course examines the science underpinning commercial quality porosity and permeability. The physical arrangement and mineralogy of grains in sandstones and carbonate hydrocarbon reservoirs, is changed during burial by compaction, fluid flow, sedimentology and geochemistry. The topic has importance in petroleum exploration and production and CO2 storage aquifers. This also helps to understand more about water.
The focus will be on several scales. Firstly the basin setting and gross basin architecture. Second the reservoir scale depositional (in)homogeneities. Thirdly, the cementation and dissolution effects at the pore scale. with integration of geological setting, basin modelling, geochemical measurements and petrological measurements. Topics include Sandstones and Carbonates. This will help understand how to predict good, or poor, quality porosity and permeability within a basin. Delivery will be through a series of four lecture days, shared with MSc classes from Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt. Formative assessment is by class dialogue and interaction. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
a familiarality with Year 2 Sedimentolgy and/or Year 3 Hydrocarbons will be helpful, contact course organiser if needed.
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| Additional Costs |
None. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 55 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 10:00 - 16:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Crew Building, Crew Annexe Room 4 |
| Additional information |
6 hour(s) per week for 4 week(s). Week 1-4 10-4pm |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| To develop a critical understanding of how sandstone and carbonate reservoir porosity and permeability in the subsurface is influenced by sedimentological effects of grainsize and sorting. To develop a detailed understanding of the effects of compaction, cementation and dissolution. This knowledge will be integrated with geological setting, basin modelling, geochemical measurements and petrological measurements which are both the principal and the special skills employed to asses the quality of a reservoir. The assessment via a critical essay will enable students to showcase their detailed understanding of a specific topic and, in this exercise, they will be encouraged to offer professional level interpretations of forefront developments. |
Assessment Information
| Write a critically argued essay, on the subject specified at the end of the course. You should use the digital library resources and paper publications held in the Library at KB. This should be no more than 4 sides of A4, including references and diagrams. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
Hydrocarbons, CO2, Porosity, Permeability, Reservoir, Aquifer, Sedimentolgy, Sabdstone, Carbonate |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Stuart Haszeldine
Tel: (0131 6)50 8549
Email: S.Haszeldine@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Emma Latto
Tel: (0131 6)50 8510
Email: emma.latto@ed.ac.uk |
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