Content Tagged: "geochemistry"

Demonstrates uses and limitations of geochemical techniques and their importance in exploration and production. Presents appropriate sample selection and preparation, as well as analytical techniques used in laboratories. Reviews and integrates basic source rock and crude oil evaluation programs into more advanced basin study and modeling programs.

Understand geochemical concept of origin and occurrence of petroleum. Describe its composition and classification of oil and gas. Identify source rock based on geochemical analysis. Understand correlation of source rock with subsurface hydrocarbon accumulation. Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to: understand composition and classification of oil and gas, understand types of kerogen, generation, expulsion and migration of petroleum, describe principal tools and methods for evaluation of source rock, interpret source rock quality and maturity, and evaluate 1-D maturation model.

There has been a large gap in the modeling and understanding of reservoir fluids; this deficiency has led to major inefficiencies in field development planning. Petroleum system modeling provides the timing, type and volume of fluids entering the reservoir (among other things).

Larry W. Lake is chair of the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and director of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Research Program at the Uni