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2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
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GEOS 5133 - Petroleum Play Analysis


3 (2-2)

Prerequisite(s): GEOS 4534 and GEOS 4034 or the approval of the instructor.

This course concerns petroleum and natural gas play analysis, with a focus on how an organic-rich source rock can combine, over time, with a series of other elements to produce an economic accumulation of petroleum. The course topics include the definition of play elements, which include source, maturation, reservoir, migration, seal, trap, and timing. Additional foci include structural styles and their controls on plays, basin classification and depositional systems and their relationship to play controls, and play analysis methods. Readings will focus on case histories of global play analyses. Laboratory exercises will include seismic and well log interpretation, stratigraphic and structural analysis, and integration of data sets.


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