LECTURE PLAN Name of Teacher- Dinesh Kumar Semester – IIISEM

LECTURE PLAN
Name of Teacher- Dinesh Kumar
Subject Name – Basic Petroleum Geology
Session – July – Dec 15
Unit
No.
I
II
III
Lecture
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
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IV
V
29
30
31
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34
35
36
37
38
39
40
Topic coverd
Semester – IIISEM
Subject code- 3PE2
B.Tech (Petroleum)
Contact
Hr.
Introduction about Mineralogy, General properties of minerals
Minerals and their classification, properties of rock forming minerals
Introduction of Petrology, classifications
Tabular classification and descriptions of some common rocks.
Introduction& principles of stratigraphy
Introduction to paleontology, fossils and their mode of preservation,
9
Significance as indices of age and climate, Index fossils
Broad stratigraphic subdivisions, Geological time scale
Rock types of important coal belts and oil fields of India.
Sedimentology:sedimentary
processes,
erosion,
transportation,
accumulation, lithification and diagenesis.
Sedimentary rocks: textures, structures
Sedimentary Petrology: classification, clastic and carbonate rocks
Evaporites, coal and oil shales,
8
Common sedimentary rock and heavy mineral studies.
Sedimentary Environments& faces analysis:fluvial, lacustrine envirn.
Deltaic, shorelines, carbonate platforms
Deep sea fans and turbidites environments
Structural Geology: introduction &stress and strain, deformation
mechanism, planner & linear feature of strata
Fold: elements, nomenclature, classification and recognition
Fault: elements, nomenclature, classification and recognition
Joints and fractures, foliation / cleavage and lineations
Shear zone; unconformity, salt domes
8
Plate tectonics and basin formation
Mapping techniques, Effects of folds, faults and fractures on strata and
their importance in exploration activities,
Forms of igneous intrusions - dyke, sill and batholiths
Nature of petroleum and natural gas : introduction, composition &
properties
Organic theory and further support to it through biological markers and
isotopic studies
The inorganic methane and Gold’s hypothesis and limitations of other
non-organic concepts
Outlines of early diagenesis, catagenesis and metagenesis.
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Primary & secondary migration of hydrocarbon
Accumulation of oil and gas; trapping mechanisms
Reservoir characteristics: porosity, permeability, saturation
Concept of pressures in the rocks
Petroleum provinces in India
Geological Exploration: surface indications and Geochemical surveys
Regional structural settings
Basin analysis
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Interpretation of topographic maps
Attitude of planar and linear structures
Effects of topography on outcrops