Undergraduate Course: Hydrocarbon Reservoir Quality (EASC10015)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | 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. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 18 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
68 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam: 0%, Course Work: 100 %, Practical Exam: 0%.
The course work entails writing a critically argued essay on the subject specified at the end of the course. Students should use the digital library resources and paper publications held in the King's Buildings Library. The essay should be no more than four sides of A4, including references and diagrams. |
| Feedback |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 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.
- To showcase their detailed understanding of a specific topic via a critical essay and encouraged to offer professional level interpretations of forefront developments.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Six hours per week 1000-1600 during Weeks 1-4. |
| Keywords | Hydrocarbonreservoir, CO2, Porosity, Permeability, Reservoir, Aquifer, Sedimentolgy, Sabdstone, Carb |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Stuart Haszeldine
Tel: (0131 6)50 8549
Email: S.Haszeldine@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Ken O'Neill
Tel: (0131 6)50 8510
Email: koneill3@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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