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Introduction To Oil Exploration
Introduction To Oil Exploration
Prepared by
Hemant Kumar
Domain Consultant
Please note
As they are the buried deeper and deeper, they also get hotter. Finally
When things get piled up, after millions of years and the right amounts of heat and pressure,
Sometimes the things on the the mud and sand grains harden into rock. The rock looks like
brown or gray cement.
bottom get squashed by the
weight of the things on the top. As the dead plant and animal life decay, oil and gas are formed. Most
oil and gas come from decayed microscopic plants and animals.
Exactly how oil and gas form isn’t known. Heat, pressure and bacteria
are all important.
INTRODUCTION
http://www.spe.org/spe/jsp/basic
http://science.howstuffworks.com/oil-drilling4.htm
http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/bgbb/3/origin.html
http://www.adventuresinenergy.org
http://www.mssu.edu/seg-
vm/introduction_to_geophysical_prospecting.html