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PETROGEO 7010 - Fundamentals of Energy Geoscience

Career: Postgraduate Coursework
Units: 3
Term: 4310
Campus: North Terrace
Contact: Up to 6 hours per day (classroom sessions taught in intensive short-course mode – 11 classroom days required).
Restriction: Master of Science in Petroleum Geoscience
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange: No
Available for Non-Award Study: No
Pre-Requisite: Honours degree level training or equivalent in Geoscience – no specific course pre-requisites; Honours degree GPA of 5/7 or greater; substantive research project experience or equivalent workplace experience in a related technical role
Co-Requisite: (PETROGEO 7011 and PETROGEO 7012 and PETROGEO 7013)
Assumed Knowledge: Honours degree level training or equivalent in Geoscience.
Assessment: Possible field trip assessment/report; in-class tests; quizzes; core store log/report; drilling, wireline log & seismic interpretation practical exercises; oral presentation; take-home end-of-course assessment (summative).
Syllabus:

PETROGEO 7010 is an integrated course of modules focusing on the characterisation and interpretation of sedimentary basin rock systems as hosts of conventional and unconventional petroleum resources, resources for gas energy storage and by-product sequestration, water resources and geothermal resources. The key technical topics are sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology and stratigraphic framework modelling by seismic survey data analysis and interpretation. Other sub-modular themes covered include reservoir controls in siliciclastic and carbonate depositional systems, facies analysis, petrology and diagenesis, correlation of strata using a variety of stratigraphic techniques such as sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, and geomechanics. One particular module concerns wellsite operations, principally drilling, wireline logging and well testing. The focus here is on both the acquisition and interpretation of rock sample, petrophysical log and well test data.

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Course Outline

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Critical Dates

Term Last Day to Add Online Census Date Last Day to WNF Last Day to WF
4310 Tue 14/03/2023 Thu 23/03/2023 Fri 05/05/2023 Fri 09/06/2023


Class Details

Enrolment Class: Workshop
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
14249 WR01 5 5 28 Feb - 3 Mar Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am - 1pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
3 Mar - 3 Mar Friday 1pm - 5pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
6 Mar - 9 Mar Monday, Thursday 1pm - 5pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
20 Mar - 23 Mar Monday, Thursday 1pm - 5pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
20 Mar - 30 Mar Monday, Thursday 9am - 1pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
27 Mar - 27 Mar Monday 2pm - 6pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
31 Mar - 31 Mar Friday 9am - 1pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
4 Apr - 4 Apr Tuesday 9am - 1pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
4 Apr - 4 Apr Tuesday 1pm - 5pm Petroleum Engineering, 108, Teaching Room
26 Apr - 28 Apr Wednesday, Friday 1pm - 5pm