Oil and Natural Gas industry technologies

• The distinction of fossil fuels into categories according to their natural state.
• The physical and chemical properties of oil and gas.
• Petroleum systems, the genesis of hydrocarbons in the subsoil, their migration and their concentration and trapping in appropriate geological structures.
• The identification of geological structures that host hydrocarbons with geophysical methods.
• The drilling technology and hydrocarbon production.
• The products from crude oil refining, the quality control and the combustion.

On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:

• Identify and describe fossil fuels, their properties and their uses as well as the research methods of their identification and evaluation.
• Recognize and analyze a petroleum system as well as choose the appropriate location for a drilling hole.
• Be aware of the tools and techniques used in the oil industry to construct deep wells.
• Be aware of the process of quality control and combustion of petroleum distillation products.

·          Search, analyze and compose data and information, using the necessary technologies.

·          Decision making.

·          Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking.

·          Working in an international environment.

2)      Physical and chemical characteristics of oil and gas.

3)      Petroleum systems. Source rocks, kerogen. Genesis of crude oil and natural gas.

4)      Hydrocarbon migration (primary and secondary). Reservoir rocks. Cap rocks (seals). Petrophysical properties (porosity, saturation, permeability, etc.).

5)      Geological trapping structures of hydrocarbons: Structural, Stratigraphic, Hydrodynamic and combination traps. Examples and exercises (e.g. selection of proper location of well at anticline structural traps).

6)      Geophysical exploration of hydrocarbons with gravimetric method. Exercise: Identification of salt dome tectonic trap.

7)      Seismic methods in hydrocarbon exploration and well logging techniques.

8)      Organic geochemistry in hydrocarbon exploration.

9)      Drilling technology of hydrocarbons.

10)   Production – recovery of hydrocarbons.

11)   Petroleum refinery.

12)   Petrochemical products.

13)   Utilization (combustion) of hydrocarbons in thermoelectrical plants, industry and commercial-domestic sectors.

Ι. Written final examination (60%) comprising:

– Multiple-choice questions

II. Written essay and presentation by Power Point (40%)

• John M. Hunt (1996). “Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology”, Ed. W.H. Freeman, p. 743.
• Norman J. Hyne (2001). “Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling, and Production”, PennWell Books, p. 598.