Field Methods for Petroleum Geologists: A Guide to Computerized Lithostratigraphic Correlation Charts Case Study: Northern Africa

✍ Scribed by Fakhry A. Assaad (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 122
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Provides an introduction to petroleum exploration methods, referring to both geophysical and geochemical techniques and the logistics of various drilling techniques and well logging methods for oil and gas exploration. The second part of the book focuses on using these methods for petroleum exploration within the context of northern Africa. The geology of northern Africa is described and computerized lithographic correlation charts are presented and applied to petroleum exploration targets from the region.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction—Petroleum Hydrocarbons....Pages 3-9
Sedimentary Basins and Plate Tectonics....Pages 11-19
Surface Geophysical Petroleum Exploration Methods....Pages 21-23
Drilling Technology in Petroleum Geology....Pages 25-40
Geophysical Well Logging Methods of Oil and Gas Reservoirs....Pages 41-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
A Lithostratigraphic Correlation Chart—A Model Type/North Africa....Pages 57-89
The Petrodata DataBase System....Pages 91-106
Back Matter....Pages 107-112

✦ Subjects

Sedimentology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geology; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences