20 Questions and answers about geology.

1. What is Petroleum geology?

2. Petroleum geology is principally concerned with the evaluation of 7 key elements in

sedimentary basins. What are they?

3. When the abundant organisms die, where do their tiny remains settle?

4. What does the organic material mix with on the bottom?

5. Where does crude oil and natural gas occur?

6. What condition must a rock have so that it is porous?
7. What characteristics must a suitable reservoir rock have? Why?
8. Why must reservoir rocks be porous?
9. What is permeability?
10. What shape does a hydrocarbon reservoir have and what does it prevent?
11. What are the two types of reservoir shapes that geologists classify?
12. What is an anticline?
13. What is seismology?
14. What is a wildcat well?
15. What special devices pick up the reflected sounds?
16. Mention the 3 wells that the industry generally classifies them? And which one is drilled in an
existing oilfield?
17. What is an exploration well?
18. What is confirmation well?
19. What is a development well?
20. Where do companies drill wells today?

Answers to the questions.

1. It is the study of origin, occurrence, movement, accumulation, and exploration of hydrocarbon

fuels.
2. Source, Reservoir, Seal, Trap, Timing, Maturation, and Migration.
3. To the bottom on the seafloor.
4. It mixes with the mud and sand.
5. In buried rocks.
6. It has to have many small holes through which oil may flow.
7. It must be porous and permeable and contain enough hydrocarbons.
8. Because hydrocarbons can occur only in pores.
9. Its pores are connected.
10. It has a distinctive shape that prevents the escape of hydrocarbons that migrate into it.
11. Structural traps and stratigraphic traps.
12. It is an upward fold in the layers of rock, much like an arch in a building.
13. It is the study of sound waves that bounce off buried rock layers.
14. It is where no oil or gas is known to exist.
15. Geophones or hydrophones.
16. Exploration well, confirmation well, and development wells. A development well.
17. It is a wildcat in order to determine if oil or gas exists in a subsurface rock formation.
18. It is done to verify if the wildcat well tapped a rock layer with enough hydrocarbons for the
company to develop it.
19. It is drilled in an existing oilfield.
20. In frozen wilderness, deserts, marshes, jungles, mountains, and deep offshore waters.