Course Description

This course focuses on characteristics and chemical makeup of petroleum, tracing maturation of organic matter to petroleum.  It emphasizes on the development of kerogen and bitumen as transitional steps and explains modification of intermediate material during diagnosis, ketogenesis and metagenesis.  It will also present examples of source-rock studies, crude oil correlations and crude oil source rock parings.  It demonstrates uses and limitation of geochemical techniques and their importance in exploration and production.

Course Goal

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand the origins of petroleum, tracing the maturation of organic matter and detailing how geochemistry can be applied to petroleum exploration and production.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

• Understand the concept of petroleum geochemistry.
• Apply sampling and geochemical analyses tools.
• Understand the concept molecular geochemistry.
• Be familiar with Biomarkers in Oils and Source Rocks.
• Asses maturity using molecular data.
• Understand petroleum alteration.
• Understand reservoir geochemistry.
• Understand oil mixing and contamination.
• Understand stable isotopes in petroleum geochemistry.
• Understand oil-oil and oil-source correlations.
• Understand the concept of gas geochemistry.
• Understand the generation and alteration of hydrocarbon gases.
• Modelling source and maturity of HC gases.
• Modelling mixing and alteration of HC gases.

Who Can Benefit

Geologists, geoscientists, petroleum engineers, managers and supervisions concerned with exploration and production in new basins.