Showing posts with label Introduction to Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Introduction to Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. Show all posts

Geophysical Methods in Hydrocarbon Exploration

Geophysical methods
• Passive:
Method using the natural fields of the Earth, e.g. gravity
and magnetic
• Active:
Method that requires the input of artificially generated
energy, e.g. seismic reflection
• The objective of geophysics
is to locate or detect the presence of subsurface
structures or bodies and determine their size, shape,
depth, and physical properties (density, velocity,
porosity…) + fluid content
  • Gravity
  • Seismic
  • Electromagnetic(Sea Bed Logging)
  • Magnetic