GEOS908: Petroleum, Geology, and Geophysics
Fossil fuels and especially oil and gas are a major and key component of Australia's energy supply, but have significant negative impacts on our environment. To refine the balance between fossil fuel exploitation and negative environmental impacts, it is important to understand how oil and gas are formed, how they are discovered and recovered, and how they can be utilised in less environmentally harmful ways. This unit will combine geological and geophysical approaches to investigate exploration and production methods for crude oil, natural gas and coalbed methane.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 5 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Juan-Carlos Afonso |
| Prerequisites: | (GEOS205 or GEOS268 or GEOS812 or GEOS816) and (GEOS206, or GEOS260 or GEOS854 or GEOS906) |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | GEOS309, GEOS841 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty of Science |