Undergraduate Course: Petroleum Systems (EASC10108)
Course Outline
| School | School of Geosciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course utilises a variety of teaching methods:
- lectures and practical classes cover the petroleum system and the application of geophysical techniques to exploration and other subsurface problems
- field study of Jurassic rocks along the coastline near Helmsdale, NE Scotland, world-class examples of fault-related clastic sedimentation
-interpretation of seismic reflection profiles of a sedimentary succession at the basin margin near Helmsdale |
| Course description |
The course will cover the following:
-Conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources
-Origin of Oil and Gas
-Petroleum Geochemistry
-Seismic attribute analysis
- Source rocks
-Maturation and migration
- Plays, traps and field volumes
-Drilling and wireline logs
-Introduction to North Sea Plays
-Resevoirs, Source rocks and seals in the field
- Digital Seismic Interpretation
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Half of the field excursion travel and accommodation |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 11,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 24,
Fieldwork Hours 32,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 6,
Summative Assessment Hours 65,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
58 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Field Notebook and A4 summary diagram«br /»
Assesses practical using digital seismic interpretation«br /»
Exam |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use onshore outcrops to build up an overall picture of a sedimentary basin- how and when rifting initiated, sedimentary facies, susidence history including effects of fault segmentation on seidment dispersal within the basin
- Practice and enhance basic field geology skills including field observation; keeping a notebook; synthesis of observations into geological history
- gain basic familiarity with industry-standard seismic interpretation software (PETREL) including a simple volumetic calculation for an oilfield
- describe the individual components of a petroleum system for both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon plays
- analyse and understand typical data from petroleum production, e.g. produced volumes of hydrocarbons, a traditional suite of wireline logs
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Reading List
Recommended Textbooks: (*, **, *** indicate relative usefulness):
*** Selley, RC, 1998. Elements of Petroleum Geology, 2nd ed. Academic Press.
* Sedimentary Rocks in the Field (Geological Field Guide) by Maurice E Tucker
* The Field Description of Sedimentary Rocks (Geological Society of London Handbook Series) by Maurice E Tucker
** Gluyas JG (2004) Petroleum GeoScience. Blackwell. Good for flow and integration of geology and geophysics applied to hydrocarbon exploration and production.
** Kearey, Brooks and Hill (2003). An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration. Blackwell. Good for seismic reflection, magnetics and gravity, wireline logs.
Also refer to:
Hunt, JM 1996 Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology, 2nd Edition, Freeman and Co, New York.
Rider M 1996 The Geological interpretation of well logs, 2nd Edition. Whittles Publishing, Caithness
Glennie, KW, 1998 Introduction to the Petroleum Geology of the North Sea. 4th Ed. Blackwell Science
The excursion always has students with a wide range of field expertise, we do expect some people without much geology. The books below on general sedimentology would be suitable background reading:
*Understanding the Earth (Chapter 15, Sedimentary Basins; Chapter 16, Clastic Sediments)
* Earth's Dynamic Systems 9th Edition (Chapter 5, Sedimentary Rocks; Chapter 10 Weathering)
*Sedimentology & Sedimentary Basins, from Turbulence to Tectonics (M. Leeder) (Part 6: Continental sediments, Part 7: Marine sediments)
*Elements of Petroleum Geology, Selley, RC, 2nd Edition 1998 (Chapter 6: The Reservoir)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Hydrocarbons,Reservoir,Seal,Petroleum System,Reserves |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Mark Wilkinson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5943
Email: Mark.Wilkinson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Thomas
Tel: (0131 6)51 1473
Email: Sarah.Thomas@ed.ac.uk |
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