Hydrocarbon Formation and Petroleum Exploration

This course that will introduce the students in aspects of hydrocarbon formation and petroleum exploration, is composed of two parts:

Part (1) Series of lectures (R. Stein)
- 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

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

By the lecturer: Series of lectures, written handout/PDFs of all figures
By the students: Seminar presentation & written report.

- To obtain a good overview on methods for source rock and petroleum characterization as well as petroleum exploration
- To understand oil and gas formation, migration, accumulation and alteration

Seminar presentation & written report

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

1st SWS: Introduction & overview to Petroleum Geology
2nd SWS: Introduction & overview to Petroleum Geology
3rd SWS: Characteristics, origin, and depositional environment of source rocks
4th SWS: Organic-geochemical methods
5th SWS: Organic-geochemical methods
6th SWS: Generation and composition of petroleum
7th SWS: Migration and accumulation of petroleum
8th SWS: Petroleum exploration
9th SWS: Homework/Groupwork
10th SWS: Homework/Groupwork
11th SWS: Homework/Groupwork
12th SWS: Seminar (Oral presentations & discussion)
13th SWS: Seminar (Oral presentations & discussion)
14th SWS: Seminar (Oral presentations & discussion)