Special Topic: Petroleum Geoscience

Petroleum products are widely used in today’s society and will likely remain so for decades despite emerging new technologies. Understanding geological systems is important for guiding exploration and helping to manage oil and gas production. This fourth year course will provide an opportunity to acquire technical knowledge and skills of petroleum systems. The course will include material from geological (structure, tectonics, sedimentary strata and volcanic rocks) and geophysical datasets. It will offer a technical grounding in many aspects of geoscience bearing on the search for, and production of, hydrocarbons. The course will help develop critical data analysis and reasoning skills using practical exercises for outcrop, drillhole and geophysical (e.g., seismic reflection profiles) datasets.