Lesson Plan -Petroleum Exploration
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Petroleum Exploration Faculty: Dr. Anirbid Sircar Lecture Hours: 2 per week Tutorial Hours : 1 per week Unit:1 Fundamentals of Petroleum Exploration (4 Lectures) Ingredients of Petroleum Exploration, Concept of source, reservoir, migration, trap and seal, Concept of Play, Lead, Prospect and Drillable Prospect, Types of Petroleum Traps-Structural, Stratigraphic and Combinational traps, Primary and Secondary Migration, E&P Life Cycle, Concept of Reserve, Lease and Reservoir, Techniques of Petroleum Exploration, Gravity, Magnetic, Electrical and seismic method of hydrocarbon exploration. Unit:2 Fundamentals of Seismic (6 Lectures) Body waves and surface waves, Rayleigh, Love, P and S wave, Seismic acquisition principle, Seismic refraction and reflection surveys, Land and marine sources, Geophone, Hydrophone and Vibroseis survey, Seismic Fold, Signal and Noise, Seismic Processing, SEG D and SEG Y format, CDP / CMP and NMO, DMO, Seismic migration, Base map, Strike Line and Dip line, 2D and 3D seismic, inline and cross line, 3D fold, time slice and its importance. Unit:3 Seismic Interpretation and Attributes (6 Lectures) Horizon and Fault mapping, Seismic impedance and reflection coefficient, convolution and autocorrelation, Fault skeleton preparation, wrench system, Structural and stratigraphic interpretation, Synthetic generation, Time and depth map, VSP survey, Attributes: Amplitude, Frequency and sweetness, AVO analysis, Classification of sands, Rock solid attributes Unit:4 G and M Methods (2 Lectures) Gravity and magnetic prospecting, Instruments of G&M survey, Gravity and magnetic data correction, Interpretation of G&M anomaly, Correlation of Gravity anomaly with seismic anomaly.
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Petroleum ExplorationFaculty: Dr. Anirbid Sircar
Lecture Hours: 2 per week Tutorial Hours : 1 per week
Unit:1 Fundamentals of Petroleum Exploration (4 Lectures)Ingredients of Petroleum Exploration, Concept of source, reservoir, migration, trap and seal, Concept of Play, Lead, Prospect and Drillable Prospect, Types of Petroleum Traps-Structural, Stratigraphic and Combinational traps, Primary and Secondary Migration, E&P Life Cycle, Concept of Reserve, Lease and Reservoir, Techniques of Petroleum Exploration, Gravity, Magnetic, Electrical and seismic method of hydrocarbon exploration.
Unit:2 Fundamentals of Seismic (6 Lectures)Body waves and surface waves, Rayleigh, Love, P and S wave, Seismic acquisition principle, Seismic refraction and reflection surveys, Land and marine sources, Geophone, Hydrophone and Vibroseis survey, Seismic Fold, Signal and Noise, Seismic Processing, SEG D and SEG Y format, CDP / CMP and NMO, DMO, Seismic migration, Base map, Strike Line and Dip line, 2D and 3D seismic, inline and cross line, 3D fold, time slice and its importance.
Unit:3 Seismic Interpretation and Attributes (6 Lectures)Horizon and Fault mapping, Seismic impedance and reflection coefficient, convolution and autocorrelation, Fault skeleton preparation, wrench system, Structural and stratigraphic interpretation, Synthetic generation, Time and depth map, VSP survey, Attributes: Amplitude, Frequency and sweetness, AVO analysis, Classification of sands, Rock solid attributes
Unit:4 G and M Methods (2 Lectures)Gravity and magnetic prospecting, Instruments of G&M survey, Gravity and magnetic data correction, Interpretation of G&M anomaly, Correlation of Gravity anomaly with seismic anomaly.
Unit:5 Geochemical Analysis (2 Lectures) Geochemical seep, Classification of seep by Link, Weathering of seeps, a geochemical program for petroleum exploration, Surface Reconnaissance, hydrocarbon Mud Logging, Rock Pyrolysis, Understanding S1, S2, S3, S1/S1+S2, Production Index, Hydrogen Index and Oxygen Index.
Unit:6 Principle of Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and Basin Evaluation (4 lectures)Basic of Bedding, dip and strike, clastic and non clastic rocks, various types of sandstones, Study of depositional environment, parameters of environmental significance, Deltaic deposits, Turbiditic environment, Neritic Diagram, Plate setting, Convergent and Divergent plate boundaries, Principle of stratigraphy, Unconformity and Hiatus, Neritic diagram, Shelf, Shelf edge, Slope, Floor, Different types of sand bars.
Unit:6 Well Log analysis (4 lectures)Basic well logs, GR and SP logs, Shallow, Medium and Deep Resistivity logs, Porosity logs-Sonic, Neutron and Density logs, Importance of log interpretation, qualitative and quantitative Interpretation, Petrophysical evaluation, Correlation of well log with seismic.
Total------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------28 lectures
Texts and References:
(1) Reservoir Seismology, Mamdough R Gadallah, Penwell Books(2) Applied Geophysics, Sheriff, Telford, Geldart and Keys(3) Quick Look Techniques for Prospect Evaluation, Daniel J Tearpock, Richard E Bischke and
Josephh L Brewton(4) Introduction to Applied Geophysics, Robert Burger, Anne f Sheehan, Craig H Jones(5) Seismic Straigraphy, Robert Sheriff(6) Petrophysics, Peter E J(7) Seismic Statigraphy, Basin analysis and Reservoir Characterization, Klas Helbig and Sven(8) Fundamentals of well log Interpretation, O Sherra(9) Petroleum Geology , Leverson
