Petroleum geology is more than the simple study of rock layers to locate oil. The science is broken into scores of sub-genres, including 3D seismic modeling and old-fashioned core sampling.

Petroleum geology refers to the specific set of geological disciplines that are applied to the search for hydrocarbons (oil exploration). Petroleum geology is principally concerned with the ...

The AHC's Economic Geology collections document the history of hard mining and petroleum. While many of these collections focus on Wyoming, our holdings have global significance. The Anaconda ...

What is Basic Petroleum Geology? For all practical purposes it closely resembles the freshman level course that a non-science major at a university would take to satisfy the science ...

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Although I am primarily, and fundamentally, a sedimentary geologist, I do have some experience applying geologic principles for oil companies. I am, by no means, however, an experienced prospector ...

Gunn has discovered about 45 oil fields with more than 300 wells in King County, Texas since 1969. He is also credited for successfully lobbying for scientific research in geology and geophysics. He ...

Penny Patterson received her BA degree in geology at CU Boulder in 1976 and during her upper-division undergraduate years, she worked part-time at the U.S.G.S. as a Field Assistant mapping bedrock ...

The finals of the fourth National Petroleum Geology Competition wrapped up at China University of Petroleum on Nov 3 with contestants giving their oral presentation themed on structural geology ...