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Oil & Gas Exploration Project Department

Oil & Gas Exploration Project is designed to walk students through the entire hydrocarbon exploration workflow, from basin analysis through drilling and appraisal. Students practice play-fairway analysis and seismic-attribute/DHI detection, and quantitatively assess resource potential through basin and petroleum-systems modeling. Working through projects that calculate the success probability of wildcat-drilling and formation-testing scenarios, graduates develop the risk-assessment skills exploration decision-making demands.

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Field-based Curriculum · 12

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Basin Modeling, Petroleum Systems & Stratigraphic Nomenclature
Basin Modeling, Petroleum Systems & Stratigraphic Nomenclature
Teaching basin modelling and the petroleum system concept, this course covers th…
Hollis Dow Hedberg
Seismic & Sequence Stratigraphy / DHI Interpretation
Seismic & Sequence Stratigraphy / DHI Interpretation
Teaching sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of 3D seismic volumes and the rea…
Laurence L. Sloss
Source Rock Geochemistry & Thermal Maturity
Source Rock Geochemistry & Thermal Maturity
Teaching source-rock organic geochemistry, evaluating maturity and generation po…
John Hunt
Oil-Source Correlation & Biomarker Geochemistry
Oil-Source Correlation & Biomarker Geochemistry
Teaching oil-source correlation through biomarker geochemistry, this course deve…
Alfred E. Treibs
Wildcat Drilling & Exploration Well Engineering
Wildcat Drilling & Exploration Well Engineering
Teaching wildcat drilling practice in frontier acreage, centred on well control …
Edward L. Doheny
Prospect Risk Assessment & Probability of Success
Prospect Risk Assessment & Probability of Success
Teaching prospect chance-of-success as a combination of independent geological f…
Thomas Bayes
Frontier Basin Exploration & Undiscovered Resource Assessment
Frontier Basin Exploration & Undiscovered Resource Assessment
Teaching play-based assessment of undiscovered resources in frontier basins with…
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Structural Trap Geometry & Fault Seal Analysis
Structural Trap Geometry & Fault Seal Analysis
Teaching structural interpretation: mapping trap geometry on 3D seismic and asse…
Hans Cloos
Unconventional Shale Play Evaluation
Unconventional Shale Play Evaluation
Teaching shale play evaluation, demonstrating commercial viability through horiz…
George P. Mitchell
Carbonate & Clastic Reservoir Petrology and Diagenesis
Carbonate & Clastic Reservoir Petrology and Diagenesis
Teaching how mineralogy and diagenesis of carbonate and clastic reservoirs build…
Robert L. Folk
Exploration Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty
Exploration Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty
Teaching exploration investment decisions under uncertainty through subjective e…
Leonard Jimmie Savage
Petroleum Reserves Estimation & Statistical Resource Classification
Petroleum Reserves Estimation & Statistical Resource Classification
Teaching the practice of estimating discovery volumes at P90/P50/P10 and classif…
Ronald Fisher