PETE 352 — Petroleum Geology
BSc BSc Petroleum Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Petroleum generation, including maturation migration, entrapment and degradation processes; sedimentology of petroleum-bearing sequences; features of sedimentary rocks, with special reference to reservoir materials; primary and secondary porosity; introduction to clay minerals; structural and stratigraphic traps including diapirs and fractured rock reservoirs; coal-bed methane, oil shale and other non-conventional petroleum sources; geological setting of the West African petroleum basins; exploration and evaluation of petroleum deposits, including an introduction to geophysical techniques.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Year Three
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- GE 174 — Photo Interpretation
- GE 183 — Principles of Land Surveying
- PETE 350 — Petroleum Engineering Numerical Methods
- PETE 351 — Physical 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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