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Undergraduate Course: Hydrocarbon Reservoir Quality (EASC10015)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Geosciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaEarth Science Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements a familiarality with Year 2 Sedimentolgy and/or Year 3 Hydrocarbons will be helpful, contact course organiser if needed.
Additional Costs None.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  55
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
King's BuildingsLecture1-4 10:00 - 16:00
First Class Week 1, Monday, 10:00 - 16:00, Zone: King's Buildings. Room 4, Crew Annexe
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
KeywordsHydrocarbonreservoir, CO2, Porosity, Permeability, Reservoir, Aquifer, Sedimentolgy, Sabdstone, Carb
Contacts
Course organiserDr Stuart Haszeldine
Tel: (0131 6)50 8549
Email: S.Haszeldine@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Emma Latto
Tel: (0131 6)50 8510
Email: emma.latto@ed.ac.uk
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