Oil and Gas Reservoirs: Barriers and Traps
e-Learning
About the eLearning Course
In this program, you will learn the differences between structural and stratigraphic traps, and how they are formed; methods of discovering traps; and factors which make a reservoir commercial or non-commercial. Your understanding of the nature of the reservoir will aid you in maintaining reservoir pressure and in interpreting the significance of changes in pressure and composition of fluid during production.
Target Audience
Operations personnel who require a fundamental understanding of knowledge to operate and maintain facilities. Also suitable for maintenance and technician personnel whether new to their roles or seasoned experts looking to enhance their skills.You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Describe how oil and gas flow through structural and stratigraphic traps.
- Describe how combination traps are formed and how they accumulate reservoir fluids.
- Describe how faults trap oil and gas.
- Describe tools and techniques used for discovering traps.
- Describe features of structural contour and isopach maps.
- Describe how anticlines and domes trap gas and oil.
- Describe how salt domes trap gas and oil.
- Describe how differential compaction traps gas and oil.
- Describe how the environment affects depositing sediments.
- Identify a sand lens and a shoestring sand.
- Describe where oil and gas accumulate in laterally-graded traps.
- Describe where oil and gas accumulate in pinchout traps.
- Describe where oil and gas accumulate in reef traps.
- Describe how solution traps accumulate gas and oil.
- Describe how limestone converts to dolomite.
- Describe an unconformity and how it traps oil and gas.
- Identify combination traps and how they accumulate oil and gas.
- Describe an asphalt seal trap and how it collects oil and gas.
