Deepwater Petroleum Systems - Fundamentals and Applications

Day 1

Source Rocks

Lectures: Case History I, Carbon Cycle, Source Rock Deposition, Source Rock Evaluation

Exercises: source rock evaluation North Sea, Canada, source potential calculation, geochemical log interpretation

Day 2

Burial, Temperature, Maturity

Lectures: Source Rock Kinetics, Heat Flow, Burial and Temperature, Maturity

Exercises: Burial History, Maturity Calculation, Deepwater Potential, Drainage Area Mapping

Day 3

Petroleum Geochemistry

Lectures: Chemistry of Petroleum, Biomarkers, gasoline Fraction, Case History II, Geochemical databases

Exercises: GC Interpretation of Deepwater oils, West Africa Oil Correlation, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Day 4

Deepwater Well Evaluations

Lectures: Deepwater Oil Transformations, Operational Geochemistry

Exercises: Hydrocarbon Habitat

Day 5

Applications

Lectures: Dry Hole Analysis, Case History III, Course review, Closeout and Evaluation.

Exercises: Evaluation of Farm in opportunity, Test