EASC 332 — Introduction to Petroleum Geology
Earth Science · University of Ghana
This course provides an overview of the importance of energy in our lives, the very significant role that fossil fuels like petroleum and coal have in supplying this energy, the environmental effects of producing, transporting, refining, using and burning these fuels, how petroleum is found and how wells are drilled to produce it, the conditions in nature required for petroleum formation and trapping, and the role that geologists and geophysicists have in petroleum exploration and production. Course details: concepts, terms, and history of petroleum and energy use in Ghana and the world; reservoir rocks and their fluids; drilling and logging of a well; the subsurface environment of sedimentary basins; generation and migration of petroleum; traps and seals.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- EASC 310 — Geological Field Methods II
- EASC 317 — Environmental Geochemistry
- EASC 321 — Environmental Pollution
- EASC 323 — Soil Mechanics
- EASC 324 — Economic Geology
- EASC 325 — Fundamentals of Hydrogeology and Hydrology
- EASC 326 — Aerial Photo Interpretation
- EASC 328 — Structural Geology and Tectonics
- EASC 331 — Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences
- EASC 333 — Environmental Impact Assessment
- EASC 334 — Organic Geochemistry
- EASC 335 — Applied Geophysics
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).