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GL5511: PRODUCTION GEOLOGY (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:05


Course Overview

This course aims to deliver key skills and understanding of the role of the geologist in development planning, driving production throughout a field’s life. There is an emphasis on the interface with Reservoir and Well Engineering, Operations and Commercial disciplines. The course gives students an understanding of fluid flow in the subsurface and how it might be impacted by geological heterogeneity. The approaches employed in building qualitative and quantitative geological models of the subsurface, and the difficulties associated with doing this reliably will be covered.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor John Howell

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Geology And Petroleum Geology (GL) (Studied)
  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The role of the geologist in development planning and driving production. There is an emphasis on the interface with Reservoir Engineering, Well Engineering, Operations and Commercial disciplines

  • Reservoir geometry and heterogeneity from depositional and structural causes
  • The concept of model cells and the role of upscaling
  • Building a reservoir model
  • Operations Geology
  • Field Development Planning
  • Reservoir Management including Infill Drilling
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery
  • Subsurface description for Field Decommissioning
  • Subsurface Understanding for the Energy Transition.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

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