Course Description
This class is part of the Heriot-Watt University Distance Learning Masters of Reservoir Engineering Program. It is intended to review all the fundamental aspects of Petroleum Geosciences, and demonstrate their cross disciplinary applications.
Audience
- Petroleum and reservoir engineers, petrophysicists, and product-ion engineers wishing to develop interdisciplinary skills.
Course Schedule
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- Introduction to Earth Science
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Exploration play concept
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Principles of flow in porous rocks
· Rock properties (exercise: interpret micro-scale images)
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| 2 |
- Walther’s Law : vertical and horizontal changes in depositional patterns (exercise: graphic logs)
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Depicting structural features
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Basic structural terms: faults, folds & fractures
· Exercise: construct cross section from a contour map)
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| 3 |
- Reservoir heterogeneity and subsurface geometries
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Depositional environments of clastic rocks, facies concepts
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Diagenesis, fractures and flow
· Carbonate depositional environments
· Seals, barriers and conduits
· Principles of seismics (exercise: synthetic seismic section)
· Subsurface contour maps (exercise: create a map)
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| 4 |
- Correlation, reservoir modelling, property estimation
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Basin reservoir geology
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Principles and practice of correlation (exercise: correlation panel)
· Geoscience in reservoir management
· Geostatistics (exercise: determination of variability)
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| 5 |
- Reservoir volumetrics, interfaces between Geoscience and other disciplines
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Deterministic approach to calculating hydrocarbon-in-place
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Definitions of reserves (exercise: reserves estimation)
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Geoscience and drilling
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Well testing, pore pressures
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Instructors
Prof. Patrick Corbett, Dr. Gary Couples, Mr. Peter Lloyd, Prof. Michael Ala
Instructors may vary based on location and schedule.
Classes
No classes are currently scheduled for this course.
Add yourself to the waiting list
We will schedule a class for this course, when there are enough participants on the waiting list.
Course Provider:
Heriot-Watt University
