GEOLOGY FOR NON-GEOLOGISTS
- Discipline: Geology
- Level: Fundamental
- Duration: 3 Days
All candidates after attending this course should be able to:
- Define Geology as a science & all included sciences as structural geology, sedimentology …etc.
- Know the origin of earth.
- Describe the structure of the earth, the composition of each layer & the relations between the layers.
- Determine the elements that form earth’s crust.
- Recognize the types of different rocks & the cycle which relate each other.
- Recognize the main rock forming minerals.
- Have a good knowledge about the geologic time record, paleogeography & paleontology.
- Define the forces affecting the earth’s crust & the major tectonic events occurred in earth.
- Recognize the main structural elements of the earth’s crust in both regional scale, macro scale & micro scale.
- Understand each representative method of describing earth’s structures & features like maps, cross sections & diagrams.
- Describe the elements of the petroleum system.
- Definition of geology & it’s related sciences.
- Origin of the universe, solar system & earth .
- Structure & composition of earth.
- Types of rocks & rock cycle.
- Earths age, types & methods of age dating.
- Geologic time scale.
- Introduction to paleontology.
- Earths crustal motions & tectonic theories.
- Earths paleogeography.
- Earths structural elements, folds, faults & fractures.
- Recognition of structural elements in field.
- Recognition of structural elements on maps & satellite images.
- Representation of structural elements
- Structural contour maps.
- Structural cross sections.
- Stereographic projections.
- Rose diagrams.
- Introduction to rock forming minerals.
- Introduction to sedimentary petrology.
- Clastic rocks.
- Nonclastic rocks.
- Rocks composition, texture & maturity.
- Agents affects sedimentation weathering, erosion transportation & deposition .
- Post depositional processes ” Diagenesis “.
- Introduction to main sedimentary environments.
- Introduction to stratigraphy.
- Types & principles of earth’s stratigraphy.
- Biostratigraphy
- Chronostratigraphy.
- Lithostratigraphy.
- Sequence stratigraphy.
- Representation of stratigraphic elements.
- Stratigraphic column.
- Stratigraphic well logs.
- Stratigraphic cross sections.
- Stratigraphic stratigraphic well correlation.
- Fence & panel diagrams.
- Origin of petroleum.
- Introduction to petroleum system elements.
- Source rocks.
- Reservoir rocks.
- Seal rocks.
- Petroleum traps.
- Time factor.
- Introduction to reservoir evaluation & mapping.
- Introduction to remote sensing.
- Reservoir engineers
- Operation engineers
- Geophysicists
- Petrophysicists
- LWD & MWD engineers
- Mud engineers
No Prerequisites required for this course