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Literature study; writing up and oral presentation of a topic on an aspect of the area of specialization as approved by the Department

Clastic reservoir rocks and porosity types; Formation Evaluation-logs and log interpretations; Oil-field Waters; subsurface pressures; Operations related to drilling and completing a well - coring and sidewall sampling; casing; drilling time and drill stem tests; Geological factors affecting choice of techniques and completion operations; Fundamentals of fluid-permeated rocks - Porosity and permeability; Darcy Equation; P-V-T relationship and use condensate reservoir; Mechanisms controlling oil production; Calculation of Oil and Gas in place including the material balance techniques

Generation; propagation; reception and recording of seismic pulses; operation of refraction and reflection surveys; Data acquisition; reduction and processing velocity determination; preparation of time and geological sections; Case studies in seismic surveys; Types of logs and information obtainable from them; Self potential; induction; resistivity; Sonic and Cement band; radiation; temperature; micro-resistivity and others; Quantitative log interpretation and determination of rock parameters

Engineering classification of rock and soils; Weathering and weathering factors; Weatherability of minerals; Soil types; Structures and textures in rocks and soils; Clay minerals types; structures; identification and influence on soil properties; Stress and strain in 2 and 3 dimensions; Representation of stress and strain; Theories of elasticity and plasticity; Stress fields and their measurements; criteria of failure and yield; Classification of soils; Flow of water in soil - steady state and transient conditions; Shear strength and its measurement; Limiting conditions in a semi-infinite space; Soil properties and their measurement; Earth pressures; Bearing capacity; Physical Properties of rock; Measurement of Stress/Strain in the laboratory and in the field; Planes of weaknesses

Subsurface data acquisition; drilling; coring; logging; fluid sampling and seismic surveys; Petrophysics; reservoir characteristics and geology; Construction and interpretation of subsurface maps; Cross-sections and panel diagrams; Seismic stratigraphic data processing and interpretations; special topics and problems; criteria for identifying subsurface faulting; Basin analysis