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Advanced Petroleum Geology and Petroleum Geoscience 

Dates Venues Register
21/03/2027 - 25/03/2027 KUALA LUMPUR

Introduction

Advanced Petroleum Geology and Petroleum Geoscience 

 

Course Outline

This Petroleum Geology and Petroleum Geoscience course includes the following topics critical to understanding aspects related to petroleum geology and geoscience:

Module 1 – Overview of Petroleum

  • Composition
  • Importance and uses
  • Formation
    • Diagenesis
    • Catagenesis
  • Petroleum maturation and hydrocarbon generation stages
  • Crude oil quality and classification parameters

Module 2 – Methods of Petroleum Exploration

  • Drilling techniques
  • Well logging and petrologic analysis
  • Surface geophysics
    • Gravity
    • Magnetic
    • Seismic
  • Borehole geophysics
  • Remote sensing
  • Integrated exploration workflow from acquisition to interpretation
  • Subsurface imaging and reservoir risk reduction

Module 3 – Non-Conventional Petroleum Resources

  • Tar sands
  • Oil shale
  • Tight oil
  • Coalbed methane
  • Shale gas
  • Resource quality and extraction challenges
  • Economic and environmental considerations for unconventional assets

Module 4 – Key Sedimentary Basin Elements in Petroleum Geology

  • Source
  • Reservoir
  • Seal
  • Trap
  • Timing
  • Maturation
  • Migration
  • Source-to-trap system connectivity
  • Basin evolution and hydrocarbon charge history

Module 5 – Major Subsets of Petroleum Geology

  • Source rock analysis
  • Basin analysis
  • Exploration stage
  • Appraisal stage
  • Production stage
  • Reservoir analysis
  • Integrated petroleum system analysis
  • Field maturation and development planning

Module 6 – Reservoir Characterisation

  • Geologic material
  • Porosity
  • Permeability
  • Diagenesis
  • Reservoir examples
  • Reserve estimates
  • Porosity-permeability relationship interpretation
  • Static and dynamic reservoir property evaluation

Module 7 – Five Geological Requirements for Formation of Conventional Hydrocarbon Reservoir

  • Source rock
  • Migration path
  • Caprock
  • Reservoir rock
  • Trap
  • Seal integrity and trap effectiveness
  • Timing of hydrocarbon charge and accumulation

Module 8 – Types of Porosity

  • Cubic porosity
  • Orthorhombic porosity
  • Rhombohedral porosity
  • Pore geometry and fluid storage behavior
  • Implications of pore structure on flow capacity

Module 9 – Reservoir Model Construction: Seismic to Simulation

  • Rock physics and petrophysics
  • Markov chain Monte Carlo geostatistical inversion
  • Stratigraphic grid transfer
  • Model validation and ranking
  • Seismic-to-simulation workflow integration
  • Uncertainty quantification in reservoir models

Module 10 – Types of Seismic Surveys

  • 2D seismic
  • 3D seismic
  • 4D seismic
  • Geohazard or well site survey
  • Vertical seismic profiles
  • Time-lapse reservoir monitoring
  • Survey selection for exploration and development decisions

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