PETE 351 — Physical Geology
BSc BSc Petroleum Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Introductory Geology; Solar System and origin of the Earth; Rotation and the figure of the Earth Gravity. Principles and applications of gravity, magnetic, seismic refraction and seismic reflection methods; nature and properties of seismic waves; acquisition of seismic data in land and marine environments; fundamentals of signal processing; processing of seismic reflection data; interpretation of seismic results; three-dimensional and four-dimensional (time lapse) seismic methods; inversion of seismic traces; amplitude variation with offset (AVO); vertical seismic profiling (VSP); integration of geology and geophysics in petroleum exploration and development programs.
- Credits
- 4
- Level
- Year Three
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- GE 174 — Photo Interpretation
- GE 183 — Principles of Land Surveying
- PETE 350 — Petroleum Engineering Numerical Methods
- PETE 352 — Petroleum Geology
- PETE 353 — Formation Evaluation
- PETE 354 — Petroleum Laboratory Analysis
- PETE 355 — Petroleum Laboratory Analysis
- PETE 356 — Drilling and Production Systems
- PETE 357 — Reservoir Petrophysics
- PETE 358 — Well Performance
- PETE 359 — Reservoir Methods
- PETE 360 — Geostatistics
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