Fundamentals of Petroleum Geology detail syllabus for Petroleum Engineering (Petro), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17PC36), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other petro 3rd sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Petro 3rd Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for fundamentals of petroleum geology is as follows.
Course Objectives:
This course enables students to
- Have basic understanding of broad array of tools used in the search for and production of hydrocarbon reserves
- Learn the principles of mapping a subsurface reservoir and estimating the volumetric.
Module 1
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Module 2
Sedimentalogy of Petroleum bearing sequences – Sedimentary basins. Generation and Migration of Petroleum. Physical and Chemical properties of Petroleum.
Module 3
Subsurface Environment – Formation fluids – Composition, temperature, pressure and dynamics. Traps and Seals. The Reservoir. Generation and Migration and Distribution.
Module 4
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Module 5
Non-conventional petroleum resources and reserve estimation. – Plastic and solid hydrocarbons. Tar sands. Oil an d gas shales. Coal bed methane. Assessment of reserves.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course students are able to understand how geologists conduct the search for petroleum resources through the value chain or the life cycle of a petroleum resource.
Graduate Attributes (as per NBA):
- Engineering Knowledge
- Problem Analysis
- Design/development of solutions (Partly)
- Interpretation of data.
Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten questions.
- Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
- There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Cox, P.A., The Elements on Earth, Oxford Universi ty Press, Oxford 1995.
- Wilson, M., Igneous Petrogenesis, Unwin Hyman, Lon don 1989.
Reference Books:
- Boggs, S., Principles of Sedimentology and S tratigraphy, second edition, Merrill Publishing Co., Toronto, 1995.
- Krumblein, W.C. and Sloss, L.L., Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, second edition W.H. Freeman and Co., 1963.
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