Fundamentals of Petroleum Geology

MECT 4397 - 3 Selected Topics in Met

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 8:30PM 10:00PM
Room T2 207
Instructor: Jack Christiansen and staff/guest lecturers
Office hours 7:30-8:30 Tuesday & Thursday or by appointment, room 381
Email: jhchristianen@uh.edu

Course objectives:
Provide an overview of the petroleum industry value chain from exploration to marketing
Enable student to determine if they are interested in the petroleum industry and where
their skill set could be utilized
Defines geoscience tools used and geoscience vocabulary to allow meaningful
communication between geoscientists and operations personnel thru value chain
Allows operations personnel to understand how geoscientist can help them in their jobs

Preliminary Course schedule: Schedule will change
1. Aug 26 Course overview, objective, value chain
2. Aug 28 Economics, Time value of money, Project stages
3. Sept 2 Multidisciplinary teams
4. Sept 4 Geological time, plate tectonics
5. Sept 9 Exploration: source, seal, reservoir, migration, trap
Sept 11 No Class Hurricane Ike
Sept 16 No Class Hurricane Ike
Sept 18 No Class Hurricane Ike
6. Sept 23 Exploration: source, seal, reservoir, migration, & trap (continued), and tools
used in exploration case study (ANWR) maps, gravity, magnetics, seismic, remote
sensing, aerial photos, etc.
7. Sept 25 ANWR review gravity, magnetics, seismic & map creation; Exploration: land
and contract issues
8. Sept 30 Review with DVD Making Hole, videos & Quiz
9. Oct 2 Exploration drilling
10. Oct 7 Review quiz, complete exploration drilling
11. Oct 9 Appraisal: structure, stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrophysics, diagenesis,
perforations for well testing
12. Oct 14 Appraisal continued, Reservoir Drive mechanisms
13. Oct 16 Types of offshore rigs and production facilities
14. Oct 21 Mid term
15. Oct 23 Conceptual design, FEED, Artificial lift Development: well test analysis,
stimulation,
16. Oct 28 Review mid term; Secondary recovery, Case studies
17. Oct 30 Enhanced oil recovery,
18. Nov 4 Surface facilities general with some flow assurance issues Offshore subsea, Case
studies
19. Nov 6 Review homework, quiz
20. Nov 11 Transportation, - Pipeline
21. Nov 13 Refinery
22. Nov 18 Health, Safety, Environmental
23. Nov 20 Marketing
24. Nov 25 Alternative Energy
25. Dec 2 Student Presentations and report due
26. Dec 4 ExxonMobil presentation, review
27. Dec 10 Student Presentations and report due

Finals Tuesday Dec 16, from 8-11 pm


Grade:
Mid Term 20%
Final 20%
Attendance 10%
Homework 15%
Quizzes 15%
Presentation & report 20%

Total 100%

Books:
Books required:
o Fundamentals of Petroleum PETEX - 4th Edition 1997
o A dictionary for the Oil and Gas Industry PETEX 2005