Important concepts/questions for the day...
1. Oil comes from organic rich source material - mostly marine phytoplankton. What area are best suited for the growth and preservation of the organic material?
2. How has biological evolution and the position of the continents throughout geologic history resulted in highly variable rates of coal organic-rich source material for oil?
3. In a conventional petroleum reservoir, what are the steps that are required after the deposition of the organic-rich source material?
3a. What happens during "maturation" and what the the physical conditions during which maturation occurs?
3b. What are the ideal properties of rocks that would serve as petroleum migration pathways, reservoirs, and cap rocks?
Lecture slides are on Sakai. Friday we will continue our discussion of petroleum reserves and spend some time with structural traps before moving on to petroleum refining.
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