GL3018: PRINCIPLES OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY (2023-2024)

This course introduces students to the key issues surrounding being a geologist in the petroleum industry.  With the changing nature of hydrocarbon exploration and production, both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons are considered.  The key concepts of the origin and generation of hydrocarbons, reservoir rocks and subsurface reservoir structures (traps) are introduced, together with some of the key techniques used within the industry (e.g. reservoir geology, petrophysics and formation evaluation).  Practical issues such as how hydrocarbon wells are drilled and how rocks are sampled in the subsurface are also considered.

• Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4

• One of GL2014 Stratigraphical Principles (Passed) or GL2017 Earth's Life: Environments and Climate Through Time (Passed) or Master of Chemistry in Oil and Gas
• One of GL2510 An Introduction to Field Geology (Studied) or BSc Oil and Gas Chemistry or Master of Chemistry in Oil and Gas
• One of BSc Oil and Gas Chemistry (Studied) or Master of Chemistry in Oil and Gas (Studied) or BSc Physics with Geology (Studied) or BSc Geology (Studied) or Master of Geology (Studied) or BSc Geology-Petroleum Geology (Studied) or BSc Archaeology-Geoscience (Studied) or BSc Geology - Physics (Studied) or BSc Geography-Geoscience (Studied)
• Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
• GL2015 Petrology & Mineralogy (Passed)

• EP3001 Petroleum Geology and Reservoir Characterisation (Passed)
• GL3523 Petroleum Geology and Reservoir Characterization (Studied)
• GL3524 Petroleum Geology and Reservoir Characterisation (Studied)