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Course Information Package

Course Unit Title	OIL AND GAS GEOLOGY AND RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
Course Unit Code	PEG200
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated	5
Learning Outcomes of the course unit	By the end of the course, the students should be able to: Understand the process of oil & gas formation and position in the overall petroleum system. Appreciate the potential of sedimentary rocks as source, reservoir or seal rocks. Integrate data from a variery of sources to establish the geological history of an area. Understand fundamental reservoir properties and familiarize with phase behaviour of hydrocarbon systems and mutli-phase flow of fluids. Appreciate different reservoir types and the importance of reservoir monitoring.
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Prerequisites	NONE	Co-requisites	NONE
Recommended optional program components	NONE
Course Contents	-  Introduction to petroleum geology: the Earth as a dynamic body. Origin, formation and age. Importance of geological time and geological periods. Long-term geological evolution. -  Stratigraphic principles and geological maps: Stratigraphy and paleontology. Deformation of geological structures. Geological maps, construction of cross-sections maps and applications of sub-surface mapping for sedimentary basins and petroleum reservoirs. -  Sedimentology: sedimentary basin analysis, siliciclastic and carbonate lithologies, significance of internal structures in sedimentary rocks. Source, reservoir and seal rocks. -  Basic principles for reservoir characterization: Darcy’s law. Reservoir rock and fluid properties including compressibility, viscosity, capillary pressures, absolute and relative permeability. -  Basic techniques for reservoir characterization: Material balance concept, phase behaviour of hydrocarbons, multi-phase fluid flow in porous media, flow regimes, fluid saturations, fluid coning and water influx. Reservoir types, reservoir monitoring and drive mechanisms of a reservoir.
Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks	Selley, R.C. (1998), Elements of Petroleum Geology. 2nd ed. Academic Press, San Diego.
References	Bjorlykke, K. (2010), Petroleum Geoscience: From Sedimentary Environments to Rock Physics. Springer, Heidelberg. Slatt, R.M. (2007), Stratigraphic reservoir characterization for petroleum geologists, geophysicists, and engineers, Elsevier Science.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods	The course will be presented through formal lectures in class. The lectures will present to the student the course content and allow time for questions and discussion. Part of the material will be presented using visual aids such as powerpoint slides. The aim is to familiarize the student with the different and faster pace of presentation and also allow the instructor to present related material (videos, slides, photographs etc) that would otherwise be very difficult to do so. Notes shall be taken by the students in class during lectures. In addition, all of the course material will be made available through the class website and also through the university’s own e-learning platform. Finally, the instructor will be available to students during office hours or by appointment in order to provide any necessary tutoring.
Assessment methods and criteria	Midterm Exam 20% Project assignment 20% Final Exam 60%
Language of instruction	English
Work placement(s)	NO