PETROGEO 7011 - Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience II
North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2018
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code PETROGEO 7011 Course Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience II Coordinating Unit Australian School of Petroleum & Energy Resources Term Semester 1 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact This course will be taught in intensive format, with modules scheduled during Semester 1. During the dates of this course, students are expected to attend class each week day, between 9am and 5pm. Activities will include lectures, practicals, research Available for Study Abroad and Exchange N Assumed Knowledge Bachelor's degree training or equivalent in geoscience. Assessment Assessment includes a final exam and assessment of work completed during the semester. Assessed exercises include activities such as submitted assignments, practical class exercise submission and oral presentations. Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Dr Khalid Amrouch
Exploration Management: Michael Frost
Subsurface Mapping and Seismic Interpretation: Mark Bunch
Structural Geology and Geomechanics: Khalid AmrouchCourse Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of PETROGEO 7011, students will have:
1. From Exploration Management subject:
- Fundamental knowledge of the oil industry structure, government agencies, legislation, joint ventures, and farm-ins and farm-outs.
- Basic understanding of cash flow, payout, profit to investment ratios, and time value concepts including rate of return and net present value.
- Basic knowledge of aspects of industry and company performance, strategy formulation and the use of metrics.
2. From Subsurface Mapping subject:
- Basic skill for subsurface analyses.
- Basic knowledge required to hand generate contour maps from discrete data points and also the practicalities behind computer generated contour mapping.
3. From Seismic Interpretation subject:
- An Introduction to the fundamentals of seismic interpretation. It therefore concentrates on structural interpretation, leaving stratigraphic interpretation to the Stratigraphy course.
- A basic knowledge of a seismic acquisition and processing.
- A good The afternoons are devoted to practical work, which comprises two major exercises: interpretation of 2D seismic data on a workstation, and interpretation of a 3D survey on a workstation. The workstation exercises are conducted in small groups, allowing all students to gain hands-on experience. The practicals stress the effort and discipline involved in producing a self-consistent interpretation of horizons and faults by working on grids or volumes of data, rather than interpreting single lines.
4. Structural Geology & Geomechanics
- Basic rock mechanics (forces, stress and strain and Mohr's circle of stress) and fault mechanics (fault/fracture meshes, and the Andersonian classification of faults)
- Basic principles of structural geology with a focus on the main structural geometries seen on seismic data and in outcrop oil industry.
- Basic understanding of the structural styles associated with extension, compression, inversion and strike-slip or salt tectonics.University Graduate Attributes
No information currently available.
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Learning Resources
Recommended Resources
“An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration”
By Philip Kearey, Michael Brooks and Ian Hill; published by Blackwell
“Fundamental of rock mechanics”
By Jaeger, Cook and Zimmerman; published by Blackwell
“Introduction to Structural Geology”
By Fossen, Haakon, and Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University PressOnline Learning
Lectures and practicals will be available on MyUni (http://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/) -
Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
This course will be taught in intensive format, with modules scheduled during Semester 1. During the dates of this course, students are expected to attend class each week day, between 9am and 5pm. Activities will include lectures, practicals, research, individual and group work. Coursework activities to be completed outside of class time are a part of the expected student workload within this course.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
There are three weeks intensive format lectures (9am - 5pm) during the first semester.Learning Activities Summary
Please refer to the curriculum of Petroleum Geoscience Program 2016. -
Assessment
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Assessment Summary
Assessment includes a final exam and assessment of work completed during the semester. Assessed exercises include activities such as submitted assignments, practical class exercise submission and oral presentations.Assessment Detail
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Submission
Late submission policy:
Work will be marked without prejudice, and 10% of the obtained mark will be deducted for each 24 hour period (or part of) that an assessment task is late, up to a maximum penalty of 50% of the mark attained. An examiner may elect not to accept any assessment task that a student wants to submit after that task has been marked and feedback provided to the rest of the class.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
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