Petroleum Geology

Objectives

It is intended that students develop skills in the analysis of surface geological and, especially, from indirect sub-surface data, allowing them a first contact with the methodologies used by the hydrocarbon industry in the stages of evaluation of the potential of sedimentary basins potentially for exploitation.

General characterization

Code

10741

Credits

3.0

Responsible teacher

José Carlos Ribeiro Kullberg, Ligia Nunes de Sousa Pereira de Castro

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 53

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

To have basic formation at the level of Bachelor on Eng. Geology and / or Geology

Bibliography

Abreu, V., Neal, J. E., Bohacs, K. M. & Kalbas, J. L. 2010. Sequence Stratigraphy of Siliciclastic Systems - The ExxonMobil Methodology. Atlas of Exercises SEPM Concepts Sed. Pal., 9, 226 p.

Allen, P. A. & Allen, J. R. 2005. Basin Analysis. Blackwell Science Ltd, 2ª ed.,Malden, 549 p.

Gomes, J. S. & Alves, F. B. 2007. O Universo da Indústria do Petróleo - da pesquisa à refinação. Fund. Calouste Gulbenkian, col. Man. Univ., 647 p.

Ratcliffe, K. & Zaitlin, B. 2010. Application of Modern Stratigraphic Techniques: Theory and Case Histories. SEPM Sp. Publ., Tulsa, 241 p.

Rey, J. 2006. Stratigraphie Séquentielle et Séquences de Dépôt dans le Crétacé Inférieur du Bassin Lusitanien. C. Terra (UNL), Vol. Esp. VI, 120 p.

Teaching method

Mainly group work.

Evaluation method

Subject evaluation is done at 3 different times and in different ways. Students take a compulsory mini-test (TP1) corresponding to the first 3 chapters of the subject (about 50% of the subject), a second mini-test (TP2) about ¾ of the subject and an oral presentation of group work ( TP3) in the last quarter of the article (Chapter 5). In the case of TP1, students may choose, in addition to the mini-test, to deliver 2 practical assignments and their report (P), developed in class, which will only count towards the final grade if the grade is higher than TP1. The final grade (CF) is obtained as follows:

CF = 0.5TP1 + 0.25TP2 + 0.25TP3

where

CF> = 9.5 values

TP1 = TP1 or TP1 = 0.7TP1 + 0.3P

The frequency is obtained by attending at least 3/4 of the classes.

Subject matter

Theme 1) Introduction to the petroleum geology

Theme 2) Rock properties in oil and gas (O&G) reservoirs

Theme 3) Tectonic struture of productive sedimentary basins

Theme 4a) Sequence stratigraphy as a tool to the analysis of productive sedimentary basins

Theme 4b) Outcrop interpretation of depositional sequences

Theme 5) Data integration; buildup of paleogeographic and tectonic maps

Programs

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