The course aims to provide technical and scientific knowledge for the identification, characterization and exploitation of underground fluids (eg hydrocarbons, geothermal fluids of various enthalpies) through surface and underground geological-geophysical surveys.
The ultimate goal is to provide the student with the possibility of acquiring the cultural tools, professional preparation and critical analysis skills necessary for entering into the world of public and private companies and organizations aimed at exploration and management geothermal and hydrocarbon fields, as well as service companies for exploration and assistance to drilling.
Prerequisites
Recommended courses: all the Earth Science courses of the three-year degree L-34
Teaching Methods
Lectures and field pratics
Type of Assessment
Oral exam
Course program
The course aims to provide technical and scientific knowledge for the identification, characterization and exploitation of underground fluids (eg hydrocarbons, geothermal fluids of various enthalpies) through surface and underground geological-geophysical surveys. The ultimate goal is to provide the student with the possibility of acquiring the cultural tools, professional preparation and critical analysis skills necessary for entering into the world of public and private companies and bodies aimed at exploration and management services. geothermal and hydrocarbon fields, as well as service companies for exploration and assistance to drilling.
The fundamentals of geothermal and hydrocarbon (conventional and non-conventional) research will be developed, with particular attention to the definition in the subsoil of the geometries of the reservoirs, the formation mechanisms and the geological-petrophysical characteristics of hydrocarbon and geothermal fluid systems (traps, structures and lithological-physical characteristics of the reservoir and covering rocks). We will also provide the notions for the interpretation of geological, hydrogeological, geochemical and geophysical surface surveys, aimed at identifying areas of interest (with exercises), localization of exploratory and development surveys, drilling technologies of various depths , geophysical logs in the well, production tests.
Finally, the student of the course will acquire specific knowledge in the modeling of hydrocarbon and geothermal fields, on the related economic and sustainability aspects, but also in the bureaucratic-legislative field linked to these professional fields (eg environmental impacts, EIA, preparation of documents and reports for the request of research and cultivation permits).