Course content

The course will comprise the most important work and procedures related to a complete resource evaluation program, from the estimation of the resource potential within an area to integrated prospect evaluation of inplace and recoverable hydrocarbons as well as FullCycle economics. It will be demonstrated how resource assessment can be used as a pre-requisit for the establishment of exploration strategies as well as forming the long-term constraints for sustainable resource management.
The course will be composed of individual and/or group work conditional upon the academic profile of the students and the type of case work that will be covered by the campus-lecturing.
Case work will comprise a study of published and other available information and the use of such information to resolve real cases related to the use of the prospect evaluation software GeoX. Resource economy as well as resource management questions will be treated.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:
Acquire methodological understanding within- Geointelligence and resource evaluation methods.

Skills:
Be able to perform an independent resource analysis with the use of- Geointelligence and resource evaluation methods.

General competence:
Develop the capability of critical reflection as well as how resource assessment can be used to establish exploration strategies as well as provide a basis for sustainable resource management.

Learning methods and activities

The course will consist of 2 modules addressing a literature study with exercises and a subsequent project. The NTNU students will have a total workload of 169 hours. Evaluation: Projectwork counts 100%. The exercises are mandatory and must be of acceptable quality for the student to be permitted to submitt the project work. NOTE that the course is only offered once every second year. The next time will be in the spring of 2013. The production goal is a minimum of 16 students every second year. Lectures are held in English if international students attend.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises, Semester report

Recommended previous knowledge

Course TMA4255 Applied Statistics or equivalent knowledge.
BSc in geosciences and the Course TGB4160 Petroleum Geology or equivalent knowledge (for eksample the book J. Gluyas & R.E. Swarbrick: Petroleum Geoscience, Blackwell Publishing).
The student must master the construction of burial graphs, maturation calculations, construction and interpretation of structure maps, thin section microscopy of potential reservoir rocks and be able to map and evaluate the petroleum potential within a given area.

Course materials

Lecture notes as well as selected papers and information from http://www.geosint.fr

Credit reductions