Lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: The carbon cycle, organic matter and maturation
- Lecture 3: Composition of oil and gas
- Lecture 4: Migration from source to reservoir
- Lecture 5: Reservoir rock properties
- Lecture 6: Trapping
- Lecture 7: Basin types and their exploration and production: reserves and resources
Petroleum Geology
(AES3820)Lecture 6: Trapping
In Petroleum Geoscience: paragraph 4.5 'The trap'
- Theory on trapping
A trap typically is the final place where oil an gas end up. The most important job for exploration geologists therefore is to find the traps. These traps can be either structural traps, caused by tectonic forces, or stratigraphic traps, which mainly has to do with the way the sediments have been deposited. The most typical traps, where 80-90% of the oil is trapped, are anticlines which are structural traps with arched upper surfaces. - Case studies
To illustrate the theory further, some case studies on structural traps, stratigraphical traps, combination traps and dynamic traps are presented.
