| Table of Contents | ||
| Petroleum Geoscience | ||
| The origin and fate of petroleum | ||
| The nature of petroleum I: chemistry and properties | ||
| The nature of petroleum II: chromatograms of petroleum | ||
| Petroleum accumulations | ||
| The (larger-scale) subsurface environment of petroleum: pressures, temperatures, etc. | ||
| The (smaller-scale) subsurface environment of petroleum: lithology and hydrology | ||
| Seals, and pathways for migration - two ends of a continuum | ||
| Petroleum traps | ||
| The Petroleum System concept | ||
| Petroleum Technology | ||
| Drilling technology | ||
| Exploitation of unconventional petroleum resources | ||
| Subsurface Geology | ||
| Subsurface Geology Preview: maps and cross-sections | ||
| Subsurface Geology I: Logs from boreholes | ||
| Subsurface Geology II: Using logs from boreholes | ||
| Subsurface Geology III: Cross-sections | ||
| Subsurface Geology IV: Contouring Data | ||
| Subsurface Geology V: Maps | ||
| Seismic data | ||
| Other stuff | ||
| The petroleum industry | ||
| Petroleum pedagogy | ||
| Topic | Format | Format |
| The origin and fate of petroleum | ||
| From marine photosynthesis to petroleum | jpg | |
| Organic carbon contents of sediments and source rocks | jpg | |
| The natural history of petroleum | jpg | |
| Scenarios for light and heavy oil I | jpg | |
| Scenarios for light and heavy oil II | jpg | |
| Scenarios for light and heavy oil III | jpg | |
| The nature of petroleum I: chemistry and properties | ||
| Natural carbon-bearing compounds | jpg | |
| Some hydrocarbon compounds common in petroleum | jpg | |
| Phyiscal properties of alkanes | jpg | |
| Characteristics of crude petroleum | jpg | |
| API gravity of some hydrocarbon compounds | jpg | |
| Methane and "natural gas" | jpg | |
| Heat of combustion of some hydrocarbon compounds | jpg | |
| The nature of petroleum II: Chromatograms of petroleum | ||
| Chromatograms of petroleum I: the gas chromatograph | jpg | |
| Chromatograms of petroleum II: chromatograms of gas and oil | jpg | |
| Chromatograms of petroleum III: a whole-oil chromatogram | jpg | |
| Chromatograms of petroleum IV: details of a whole-oil chromatogram | jpg | |
| Chromatograms of petroleum V: oil through time | jpg | |
| Petroleum accumulations | ||
| Categories of hydrocarbon accumulations and sources (a text-rich table) | jpg | |
| Conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons and reservoirs (a graphical alternative to the table above) |
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| Conventional and unconventional petroleum accumulations I | jpg | |
| Conventional and unconventional petroleum accumulations II | jpg | |
| Five elements of a (conventional) petroleum accumulation | jpg | |
| The fewer-than-five elements of unconventional petroleum accumulations | jpg | |
| Conventional/discrete vs. unconventional/continuous hydrocarbon accumulations |
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| The (larger-scale) subsurface environment of petroleum: pressures, temperatures, etc. | ||
| Typical pressure and temperature conditions in sedimentary basins | jpg | |
| Subsurface pressure and overpressure | jpg | |
| Pressure regimes from onshore to offshore | jpg | |
| Why pressure management is more challenging in deeper water | jpg | |
| Paleogeothermometric indicators, organic diagenesis, and siliciclastic diagenesis |
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| Heat flow, thermal conductivity, geothermal gradient, and subsurface temperatures |
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| Heat flow, geothermal gradient, and the thermal conductivity of sedimentary rocks |
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| Depth, density, and the mobility of salt | jpg | |
| Subsalt plays I: basic pros and cons | jpg | |
| Subsalt plays II: subsalt vs. presalt | jpg | |
| The (smaller-scale) subsurface environment of petroleum: lithology and hydrology | ||
| Rocks relevant to petroleum I: hydrology and rheology | jpg | |
| Rocks relevant to petroleum II: reservoirs and seals | jpg | |
| Rocks relevant to petroleum III: origins of unconventional accumulations | jpg | |
| Categorization of pores in sedimentary rocks I | jpg | |
| Categorization of pores in sedimentary rocks II | jpg | |
| Sand mineralogy and plate tectonics | jpg | |
| Wetting surfaces and water saturation in petroleum reservoir rocks | jpg | |
| Vertical segregation of an oil reservoir | jpg | |
| Seals, and pathways for migration - two ends of a continuum | ||
| Migration of petroleum | jpg | |
| Fluids, pores throats, wetting, and interfacial tension | jpg | |
| Buoyancy, seals, and the upward migration of petroleum, Part I | jpg | |
| Buoyancy, seals, and the upward migration of petroleum, Part II | jpg | |
| Buoyancy, seals, and the upward migration of petroleum, Part III | jpg | |
| Faults as seals for traps or as pathways for migration | jpg | |
| Petroleum traps | ||
| Petroleum traps and their tectonic settings | jpg | |
| Some simple traps for petroleum | jpg | |
| Diagenetic traps | jpg | |
| Development of a turtle structure between salt diapirs | jpg | |
| The Petroleum System concept | ||
| The Petroleum System concept | jpg | |
| A time-and-space approach to petroleum systems | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems I: Reefal trap I | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems II: Reefal trap II | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems III: Reefal trap III | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems IV: Reefal trap IV | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems V: Reefal trap V | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems VI: Reefal trap VI | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems VII: Source over reservoir I | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems VIII: Source over reservoir II | jpg | |
| Petroleum systems IX: a rotated pinchout | jpg | |
| Drilling technology | ||
| Tubulars and other drilling technology | jpg | |
| Driving mechanisms for drilling in the early 2000s | jpg | |
| Drilling muds: a table | jpg | |
| Drilling muds I | jpg | |
| Drilling muds II | jpg | |
| Drilling muds III | jpg | |
| Drill-stem tests I: the tester | jpg | |
| Drill-stem tests II: results | jpg | |
| Cuttings from petroleum boreholes | jpg | |
| An excursion into the oilpatch jargon of drilling | jpg | |
| Exploitation of unconventional petroleum resources | ||
| Unconventional petroleum exploitation I: historical and spatial context |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation II: the process of drilling and fracking |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation III: fracking design |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation IV: fractures and proppants |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation V: proppants and their properties |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation VI: the fractured volume of rock |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation VII: layer-parallel drilling |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation VIII: multiple fracked wells from one pad |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation IX: (vertical) down-spacing |
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| Unconventional petroleum exploitation X: Potential environmental problems with fracking |
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| Subsurface Geology Preview: maps and cross-sections | ||
| Maps and cross-sections I | jpg | |
| Maps and cross-sections II | jpg | |
| Maps and cross-sections III | jpg | |
| Maps and cross-sections IV | jpg | |
| Maps and cross-sections V | jpg | |
| Maps and cross-sections VI | jpg | |
| Maps and cross-sections VII | jpg | |
| Subsurface Geology I: Logs from boreholes | ||
| Logs from oil and gas boreholes | jpg | |
| Characteristics of wireline well logs used in the petroleum industry | jpg | |
| (a large-format chart) | ||
| Logs in transitional lithologies | jpg | |
| The origin of spontaneous potential | jpg | |
| Sonic and photoelectric logs as litho-porosity indicators | jpg | |
| Responses of neutron porosity and density porosity logs | jpg | |
| NMR logs I: responses of hydrogen-bearing molecules | jpg | |
| NMR logs II: Distributions of relaxation time T2 | jpg | |
| Appearance of strata in image logs of boreholes 0 | jpg | |
| Appearance of strata in image logs of boreholes I | jpg | |
| Appearance of strata in image logs of boreholes II | jpg | |
| Subsurface Geology II: Using logs from boreholes | ||
| Basic thoughts about wireline logs I: Shale | jpg | |
| Basic thoughts about wireline logs II: Correlation | jpg | |
| Basic thoughts about wireline logs IIa: Correlation | jpg | |
| Basic thoughts about wireline logs III: Correlation and interpretation | jpg | |
| Picking tops | jpg | |
| Identification and interpretation of missing section, Part I | jpg | |
| Identification and interpretation of missing section, Part II | jpg | |
| Identification and interpretation of missing section, Part III | jpg | |
| Identification and interpretation of missing section, Part IV: a summary, in progress | jpg | |
| Identification and interpretation of missing section, Part V: a summary | jpg | |
| Faults and inclined boreholes I: Normal faults | jpg | |
| Faults and inclined boreholes II: Reverse faults | jpg | |
| Subsurface Geology III: Cross-sections | ||
| Structural and stratigraphic cross-sections | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section 0: datums, depths, and elevations | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section I: datum correction | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section II: hanging | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section III: marking tops | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section IV: inferring structure | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section V: a bigger picture | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section VI: correlations | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section VII: missing section | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section VIII: missing section again | jpg | |
| Making a structural cross section IX: a finished product | jpg | |
| Hanging stratigraphic cross sections | jpg | |
| Vertical exaggeration in cross sections | jpg | |
| Rheology and subsurface interpretation I | jpg | |
| Rheologically reasonable cross sections I | jpg | |
| Rheologically reasonable cross sections II | jpg | |
| Rheologically reasonable cross sections III | jpg | |
| Interpretation of single-well anomalies in cross-sections | jpg | |
| Subsurface Geology IV: Contouring Data | ||
| Contouring I | jpg | |
| Contouring II | jpg | |
| Contouring III | jpg | |
| Contouring IVa: common problems | jpg | |
| Contouring IVb: solutions | jpg | |
| Contouring V: parsimony | jpg | |
| Rheology and subsurface interpretation II | jpg | |
| Contouring VI: Contour interval and format of contours | jpg | |
| Subsurface Geology V: Maps | ||
| Penetration maps | jpg | |
| Structure maps, Part I: making a structure map | jpg | |
| Structural maps, Part II: normal faults | jpg | |
| Structural maps, Part III: Intersections of faults and folds | jpg | |
| Isopach maps | jpg | |
| Predicting tops | jpg | |
| Seismic data | ||
| Seismic data and earthquake seismology: a comparison | jpg | |
| The dimensions of seismic data | jpg | |
| Statics corrections for seismic data | jpg | |
| Shot gathers, common midpoint gathers, and stacks | jpg | Why seismic resolution decreases with depth | jpg | Seismic velocity models | jpg |
| Flat spots and bright spots in seismic data | jpg | |
| The petroleum industry | Calculation of recoverable oil | jpg | The price of crude oil 1860-present | jpg | The price of crude oil 1960-present | jpg | The financial context of petroleum exploration and discovery | jpg | Depth of giant petroleum discoveries through time | jpg | Corporate geoscientists, relative to their academic counterparts | jpg | An explanation of the volatility of oil prices | jpg | An explanation of the volatility of oil prices II | jpg | A genealogy of the oil industry | jpg |
| Petroleum pedagogy | A plan for a petroleum geoscience class | jpg |
