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| Course Outlines For The M.Sc. In Pertroleum Geoscience |
| GS 5201 |
Reservoir Sedimentology |
| Units: |
4 |
| Contact hrs: |
40 lectures, 20 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Fluid flow, sediment transport mechanisms, bedforms and sedimentary structures associated with open channel flow, sedimentary gravity flows and waves. Depositional environments and facies models for clastic sedimentary systems including, braided and meandering rivers, deltas, coasts and continental shelves, deep marine basins, alluvial fans and lakes. Composition and classification of carbonate rocks. Facies models for carbonate rocks in continental shelf, ramp, reef, fore-reef slope, bank margin, basin margin and pelagic settings. Compaction, diagenesis, cementation and dissolution of clastic and carbonate rocks and their affect on porosity and permeability of hydrocarbon reservoirs.
| Textbooks: |
Walker, R.G. and James N.P., Facies Models: Response to Sea Level Change, 1992; Scholle, P.A., Bebout, D.G. and Moore, C.H., Carbonate Depositional Environments, 1983. |
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| GS 5203 |
Tectonics and Structural Geology |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
26 lectures, 14 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline:Fault and fold mechanics, current concepts in plate tectonics, cross-section construction techniques, structural interpretation of seismic data, structural styles in different tectonic settings (thrust and fold belts, rifts, strike-slip, gravity tectonics, inversion), structural geology of reservoir units.
| Textbooks: |
Twiss and Moores, Structural Geology, 1992; Hancock, Continental Deformation, 1993; Suppe, Principles of Structural Geology, 1985. |
| GS 5204 |
Well Log Analysis |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
25 lectures, 15 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Introduction; the logging environment; temperature logging; caliper logs; self-potential or SP logs; sensitivity and conductivity logs; gamma ray and spectral gamma logs; sonic or acoustic logs; density and photoelectic factor logs; neutron logs; lithology reconstruction from logs; dipmeter; imaging logs; facies, sequences and depositinal environments from logs.
| Textbooks: |
Rider, M.H., The geological interpretations of well logs, 2nd Edition, 1996. |
| GS 5205 |
Petroleum Geochemistry |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
30 lectures |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 40%
Examination 60% |
Course Outline: Basic concepts and terminology of petroleum geochemistry; processes related to preservation of organic matter in sedimentary environments; composition and characterization of kerogen, bitumen, and petroleum; conversion of kerogen to hydrocarbon; principles and interpretation of geochemical data; basic concepts of maturity modelling; integrating measured geochemical data with conceptual geologic models.
| Textbooks: |
Waples, D., Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration, 1989. |
| GS 5206 |
Applied Biostratigraphy |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
20 lectures |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 40%
Examination 60% |
Course Outline: Palynomorphs, spores and pollen, dinoflagellates, benthic and planktonic foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, biozonation of the Tertiary of Southeast Asia, global biozonations, sequence stratigraphic applications and the role of biostratigraphy in hydrocarbon exploration.
| Textbooks: |
Course notes prepared by the Lecturer. |
| GS 5208 |
Sequence Stratigraphy |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
40 lectures |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Definition of a depositional sequence, recognition of depositional sequences on well logs, seismic data and outcrop, controls on sequence development, system tracts, seismic facies analysis, siliciclastic and carbonate depositional models, eustasy versus tectonics.
| Textbooks: |
Emery, D., and Myers, K.F. (eds.), Sequence Stratigraphy , 1996. |
| GS 5212 |
Oil Fields of Southeast Asia |
| Units: |
1 |
| Contact hrs: |
20 seminar hours |
| Assessment: |
Seminar Presentation 50%
Classroom Participation 50% |
Course Outline: This is a seminar course. Seminars will be presented by Department staff, students and guest lecturers from the petroleum industry.
| Textbooks: |
C. Hutchinson, Geological Evolution of Southeast Asia, 1989. |
| GS 5213 |
Prospect Assessment And Evaluation |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
18 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 100% |
Course Outline: The course is an extended practical exercise where well, outcrop, seismic and other geophysical data are interpreted in order to evaluate the exploration potential of an area.
| Textbooks: |
P. Link, Basic Petroleum Geology, 1987. |
| GS 5214 |
Integrated Oil and Gas Field Study |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
28 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 100% |
Course Outline: Concepts and terminology applied to integrated oil and gas field; application of geological and geophysical data, including correlation, mapping, and compilation of seismic and well-log data of structural, stratigraphy, and reservoir facies in map form; calibration of well logs to core and cutting data; calibration of well logs to seismic data; generating geological and reservoir maps; calculating oil and gas reserves; history matching field production.
| Textbooks: |
P. Dickey, Petroleum Development Geology, 1986. |
| GS 5215 |
Research Project |
| Units: |
15 |
| Contact hrs: |
unspecified |
| Assessment: |
Final Report and Oral Presentation 100% |
Course Outline: A written research proposal, collection and analysis of data, interpretation of results and a final written report (5000 words) and oral presentation (20 minutes) on the completed research.
| Textbooks: |
None required. |
| GS 5216 |
Petroleum Geology of NW Borneo |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
10 day field course |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 100% (field exercises and field notebook) |
Course Outline: Observation, analysis and interpretation of outcropping clastic and carbonate sedimentary rocks, faults and folds in Brunei, Labuan and the Miri - Niah region of Sarawak.
| Textbooks: |
S. Sandal, (ed)., The geology and hydrocarbon resources of Negara Brunei Darussalam, 1996. |
| GS 5217 |
Seismic Interpretation |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
25 lectures, 15 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Examination 50%
Coursework 50% (Interpretation exercises) |
Course Outline: Principles of geological interpretation of seismic data, description and mapping of seismic facies, interpretation of different depositional environments, lithofacies prediction, reconstruction of complex erosional/depositional successions, introduction to SeisWorks in workstation environment, incorporation of well log data in SeisWorks.
| Textbooks: |
Bally, A.W. (ed.), Atlas of Seismic Stratigraphy, 1989; Landmark Graphics Co., SeisWorks Essentials, 1996. |
| GS 5218 |
Reservoir Characterisation |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
25 lectures, 15 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Recovery factors in hydrocarbon reservoirs. Petrophysics in the oil field environment and scaling to the appropriate earth models. Linking rock physics, well logs and seismic data to extend rock properties measure in a borehole into the data volume given by 3D seismic data. Measuring 3D earth models using borehole seismics: Vertical seismic profiling (VSP); cross well and single well techniques. Understanding the physical properties of rocks and their importance for the different applications such as reservoir modeling and petroleum engineering.
| Textbooks: |
Lucia, J. F., Carbonate Reservoir Characterization, 1999; Schatzinger, R. A. and Jordan, J. F., Reservoir Characterization: Recent Advances, 2001; Stoudt, E. L., Hydrocarbon Reservoir Characterization: Geological Framework and Flow Unit Modeling, 1991. |
| GS 5219 |
Reservoir Modelling |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
25 lectures, 15 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Seismic facies modeling, seismic inversion, geostatistical modeling, DHIS and AVO analysis, seismic attributes application, shear wave data application, 4D seismic application, cross-well profiling/ seismic tomography, measuring and monitoring reservoir pressure, primary, secondary and tertiary recovery techniques, reservoir simulation.
| Textbooks: |
Sheriff, R. (ed.), Reservoir Geophysics, 1992; Weimer, P. and Davis, T. (eds.), Application of 3-D Seismic Data to Exploration and Production, 1996. |
| GS 5220 |
Geophysics |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
25 lectures, 15 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Description of waveforms, propagation of seismic waves, data acquisition, digital signal analysis, data processing, seismic interpretation in time, time to depth conversion, seismic modeling, synthetic seismograms, VSP, seismic refraction methods, interpretation of gravity and magnetic data.
| Textbooks: |
Yilmaz, O., Processing, Inversion and Interpretation of Seismic Data, 2001. |
| GS 5221 |
Petroleum Exploration |
| Units: |
2 |
| Contact hrs: |
25 lectures, 15 practicals |
| Assessment: |
Coursework 50%
Examination 50% |
Course Outline: Play concepts, petroleum systems, trap integrity, reserve estimation, integration of technical data with economic principles and risk assessment, developing exploration strategies, tectonic models and hydrocarbon habitat.
| Textbooks: |
Allen, P.A. and Allen, J.R., Basin Analysis: Principles and Applications, 1990. |
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