Geochemistry

QAB4063

Introduction to Petroleum Geochemistry
Week-1 (Lecture-1)

Assoc. Prof. Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya
Geoscience & Petroleum Engineering Department

LO: At the end you will be able to appreciate what are the jobs carried out by
different petroleum geochemists.


Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Oil & Gas Pool
Drill petroleum Prospect
Petroleum Geologist
Physics ,
Geophysics
Engineering
Fluid Mechanics
Physical Geology, Historical geology, Structural Geology,
Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Surface Mapping

Mineralogy, Petrology, Sedimentation, Petrography,
Geomorphology, Sub-surface Mapping.
Chemistry
Geochemistry
Mathematics
Physical
Chemistry
Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
It is a branch of geochemistry to resolve
the problems of petroleum geology

Historically, it started as early as in 1936
and now it is further specialized into
Exploration, Development & Production.

Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Exploration Geochemistry
1. Characterizing charge risk
2. Using oil bio-markers in exploration
3. Using Basin modeling to reduce risk
4. Origin of light oil and condensate
5. Reservoir alteration of oil
Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Development Geochemistry
1. Using oil geochemistry to predict vertical
and lateral variations of oil.
2. Assessing reservoir compartmentalization.
3. Water geochemistry of oil field brines.
4. Solid bitumen in reservoirs.
Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Production geochemistry
1. Monitoring reservoir floods.
2. Allocating comingled production.
3. Identifying completion problems (Tubing
leak, poor cementation etc).
4. Preventing sludge, asphaltene or mineral
scale deposition
And
Also for Field Abandonment to control
environment
Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Source Rock
Geochemistry
How Oil is Generated?
When Oil is Generated?
Where Oil is Generated?
What Characteristics of oil is
generated?

What Volume of Oil is Generated?

What Type of Oil exists?
Number of lateral compartments?
Contribution of each reservoir?
Tubing Leakage / Cementation Leak ?

Oil Oil & Oil Source Correlation?
Petroleum System?
Reservoir
Geochemistry
Exploration
Techniques
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Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Assessment:

1. Course Work : 50%
a) Assignment-1: TOC, Rock-Eval & Vitrinite Reflectance 10%
b) Assignment-2: GC & GC_MS 10%
c) Quiz-1 (at the end of third week) 5%
d) Quiz-2 (at the end of ninth week) 5%
e) Test-1 (at the end of thirteenth week) 20%
2. Final Examination: 50%
Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry
Course Content:
1. Introduction 1 week
2. Geological & Geochemical constraints on hydrocarbon 2-3 weeks
generation and accumulation
3. Chemical parameters to resolve pet.geology problems 4-5 weeks
4. Analytical Techniques: TOC & Rock-Eval 6-7 weeks
5. Analytical Techniques: Vro, GC, GC-MS 8-9 weeks
6. Reservoir Geochemistry 10
th
week
7. Geochemical correlations 11
th
week
8. Petroleum alteration 12
th
week
9. Geochemical Exploration for Petroleum 13-14 weeks


Introduction to Petroleum
Geochemistry