GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOLOGY OF FOSSIL FUELS
46-310
Prerequisites: 19-100 and a 200 level geology course
Instructors: I.P. Martini (University of Guelph), W.A. Glooschenko (National Water Research Institute, Burlington), R.A. Bourbonnier (National Water Research Institute, Burlington).
Objectives: The objective of the course is to discuss the organic materials from which oil and coal are generated, and to analyze the various stages of transformation, migration, and accumulation of petroleum, peat, and coal.
Textbooks: Hobson, G.D. and Tiratsoo, E.N. (latest edition) Introduction to Petroleum Geology. Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, TX.
Beaumont, E.A. (Ed.), 1982. Energy Minerals. Amer. Assoc. Petr. Geol. Reprints No. 25.
Method
of evaluation: Two exams (80%) and a report on optional topic (20%)
LECT. TOPIC
1. Organization
of course. introduction, energy use, economics
2. Production
and accumulation of organic matter, global carbon cycle
3. Classification
of organic materials, composition of the biosphere, composition of petroleum
4. Transformation
of organic matter - Diagenesis
5. Transformation
of organic matter - Catagenesis and metagenesis
6. Formation
of gas, kerogen structure and classification
7. Biochemical
markers and maturation indicators - I
8. Oil
and gas source rocks, porosity
9. Biochemical
markers and maturation indicators - II
10. Primary
migration form mature source rocks
11. Secondary
migration into reservoirs
12. FIRST
EXAMINATION
13. Reservoirs
and traps
14. Structural
and stratigraphic traps
15. Exploration
and production techniques - I
16. Exploration
and production techniques - II
17. Sedimentary
basins; oil nad gas accumulations
18. Heavy
oil, shales and tar sands
19. Introduction
coal, coal petrography
20. Peat,
peatlands and peat energy
21. Paralic
environments
22. Diagenesis
in relation to coal formation
23. Cyclic
sedimentation case histories of coal formation
24. Case
histories of coal formation
25. SECOND
EXAMINATION