A part of Petroleum Industry related to exploration and production of hydrocarbons (also called Exploration & Production or E & P)
It is essentially based on the knowledge area of Petroleum Geology and other Subsurface Production Disciplines.
The primary subject of E & P is exploring or acquisition of Petroleum Asset and maintaining the profitable production from it.
The results of the exploration lead to the procedure of Booking Reserves
| Petroleum Exploration is split into three operational areas: | Petroleum Production is split into three operational areas: | |||||
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Booking Reserves | Field Development Planning | |||||
Open-Hole surveys: Acoustic logging Vertical seismic profiling Gamma density logging Formation resistivity logging Neutron logging Formation testing
Temperature logging Pressure testing Laboratory analysis: |
Outcrops survey Gravimetry survey Magnetic survey Electrical resistivity survey Seismic surveys: Passive seismic survey 2D seismic survey 3D seismic survey 4D seismic survey |
Optical imaging Infrared Imaging | ||||