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In Introduction to Petroleum Geology, you'll learn ...
- How rocks are formed and classified
- How petroleum is formed
- Petroleum migration and trapping
- Unconventional petroleum reserves
- Fundamentals of drilling and production
Overview
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Credit: 7 PDH
Length: 116 pages
In this course you will learn the fundamentals and language of petroleum geology, exploration, drilling and production
This course introduces the tools and techniques that geologists and geophysicists use to locate gas and oil, that drillers use to drill the wells and that petroleum engineers use to test and complete the wells and produce the gas and oil.
This course is for anyone who could benefit by an overall perspective of petroleum geology, exploration, drilling and production to be more productive in their job.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe basic rock-forming processes and the classification and origin of rocks.
- Explain geological time and methods for dating geological events.
- Summarize the relationship between plate tectonics and petroleum.
- Outline major events in geological time and history.
- Describe the basic processes involved in the formation and deformation of sedimentary rocks.
- Identify common depositional environments and the reservoirs created by them.
- Explain the distribution of porosity and permeability in reservoirs formed in different depositional environments.
- Distinguish between petroleum reservoir rocks and source rocks.
- Describe petroleum origin, migration, and trapping.
- Identify the characteristics of petroleum accumulations.
- Interpret the fundamentals of geological maps and sections.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 36 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 7 PDH
Length: 116 pages
