GEOL 5570 - Petroleum Geology

Designed for geology students at the senior undergraduate and graduate levels. It will provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts and processes that govern a) the generation, migration, and trapping of hydrocarbon resources, and b) the fundamentals of exploration for, and exploitation of, these resources.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Graduate students are expected to actively participate in discussions both in the class and in labs.
Graduate students must write paper worth 20% of the total grade on an oil province based on original literature and make a presentation to the class on the results of their paper.
Have a general understanding of the factors that control the extraction of oil and natural gas.
Have an basic understanding of how companies explore for oil and natural gas including the economics of the industry.
Have an basic understanding of how oil and natural gas are formed, how it moves through the subsurface, and how it is trapped.
Know the basics of the development the petroleum industry.
Write a term paper based on a literature review of a specific oil and natural gas basin.