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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Carbonate reservoirs are considered to be the most significant source of hydrocarbon production for this century. This course is offered to provide an introduction to carbonate reservoir evaluation through use of academic and industry course material. Basic terminology and concepts will be taught through lectures, practical exercises and self-study assignments. The course will cover the geology, diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy, petrophysics and seismics in carbonates. What challenges do carbonate reservoirs give? Examples of different carbonate reservoirs will be used to demonstrate the importance of carbonate reservoir characterization (as a multidisciplinary approach) and ways of integrating engineering and geoscience data for more effective reservoir management. The integration of all disciplines will be stressed through lectures, practical exercises and self-study assignments. Data will be provided for practical exercises on evaluation of carbonate reservoirs Ingress: The course gives competence in evaluation of carbonate reservoirs. These can be very different from clastic sandstone reservoirs and contains more than 50% of the petroleum reserves of the earth. The students learn about the geology and the petrophysics of such rocks. They are also given basic knowledge of reservoir geomodelling, uncertainty analysis, risk assessment and seismics. At the end of the course, the students are going to do a large project where they will evaluate data from a carbonate reservoir under the guidance of the course leaders. This project is conducted over a few weeks, and more working hours than normally must be expected.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
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Knowledge: The students are expected to understand data types and aspects of carbonate reservoirs. They should be able to work with such data to evaluate the potential of such a reservoir. They are working together with other students with a complementary competence - just like in the industry.
The students will get insights into the complexity of carbonate reservoirs and how to evaluate data from such reservoirs, how to systematise data, interpret and build a geological reservoir model for carbonate reservoirs, integration petrophysical and seismic data, in addition to get an understanding of the consequences in selection of different depositional models, distribution of reservoir properties , and the theories in building of a reservoir model. General competence: Working together with other students with different competence in the evaluation of petroleum reservoirs is an important competence in the oil industry.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Lectures and exercises, self study assignments. Data sets will be provided for group work and self study to teach the methods of "how to evaluate a carbonate reservoir".
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Recommended literature
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Lucia F. J. (2007). Carbonate Reservoir Characterization.
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Noel P. James and Brian Jones. (2015). Origin of Carbonate Sedimentary. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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