Hydrocarbon Formation, Petroleum Exploration, CDR and CCS

This course will introduce students to aspects of hydrocarbon formation and petroleum exploration, including the inverse process of Carbon capture and storage.
The course is composed of two parts:

Part (1) Series of lectures (Achim Kopf)
- Introduction & overview to Petroleum Geology
- Characteristics, origin, and depositional environment of source rocks
- Organic-geochemical methods
- Generation and composition of petroleum
- Migration and accumulation
- Petroleum exploration
- Methods of Carbon Dioxide Removal
- CCS

Part (2) Seminar presentations (Students)
- Homework on selected papers dealing with topic-related case studies
- Oral presentation and discussion of the case studies (20 min)
- Written summary/hand-out of key results of the case studies

- To obtain a good overview on methods for source rock and petroleum characterisation as well as petroleum exploration
- To understand oil and gas formation, migration, accumulation and alteration
- To get acquainted with changes in the energy sector and processes for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR, including CCS)

Seminar presentation & written handout

Referat mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung

Spencer, A. M., et al. (eds) (2011) Arctic Petroleum Geology (Geological Society, London, Memoirs 35)
Tissot, B.P. and Welte, D.H. (1984) Petroleum Formation and Occurrence (2nd Edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin)
Ritchie, H., Roser, M., Rosado, P. (2022) Our world in data: Energy Mix (Published online at https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
The Ocean - a climate champion? Wolrd Ocean Reviews, no. 8, https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-8/

1st SWS: Introduction & overview to Petroleum Geology
2nd SWS: Characteristics, origin, and depositional environment of source rocks
3rd SWS: Organic-geochemical methods
4th SWS: Generation and composition of petroleum
5th SWS: Migration and accumulation of petroleum
6th SWS: Petroleum exploration
7th SWS: Peat, lignite, coal
8th SWS: CDR and CCS onshore
9th SWS: CDR and CCS offshore
10th SWS: self-study period (preparation of talk)
11th SWS: self-study period (preparation of talk)
12th SWS: self-study period (preparation of talk)
13th SWS: Seminar (Oral presentations & discussion)
14th SWS: Seminar (Oral presentations & discussion)