To give students direct experience of outcrop analogues of the most important ofthe UK's petroleum reservoir rocks.

To give students the opportunity to use the skills and knowledge that they have gained in previous modules on the MSc (ENVS600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, and606).

To allow students to compare rocks observed at outcrop with indirect (seismic andwireline) data from equivalent reservoir rocks that contain petroleum in theUK's oil and gas fields.

To allow students to compare rocks observed at outcrop with direct core (petrographic,core analysis) data from equivalent reservoir rocks that contain petroleum inthe UK's oil and gas fields.

To allow students to observe core material in a core store to advance the review of the UK's reservoir rocks. To allow students to compare core material to indirect (wireline) and direct (core analysis andpetrographic) data from oil and gas fields

(LO1) Acritical appreciation of the outcrop characteristics and expression of the petroleumreservoirs that are important in the UK, NW Europe and beyond.

(LO2) Directexperience of working with sandstone and carbonate outcrops that hold oil andgas in the UK and NW Europe

(LO3) Directexperience of the appearance of reservoir rocks normally studied using remote(seismic) data and/or boreholes via published papers and available published data

(LO4) Directexperience of what rocks, responsible for wireline signals, actually look likein outcrop

(LO5) Directexperience of bed forms and diagenetic features (that control porosity andpermeability in reservoir rocks) in outcrop

(LO6) Acritical appreciation of the scale of reservoir flow units (as controlled bydepositional and diagenetic features) as used in reservoir models

(LO7) Theability to evaluate and interpret rocks at outcrop and relate observations madeabout them to subsurface datasets

(LO8) Theability to relate subsurface datasets (seismic, wireline, core descriptions,core analysis and thin section images and data) to what rocks actually looklike at outcrop as viewed in three dimensions

(S1) Communication skills

(S2) Solving problems using a wide range of data types and data-scales (km-scale seismic to micrometer-scale petrographic data)

(S3) Team work

Lectures will be given:

Defining the approach to be taken during the field course.

Introducing the petroleum geology context of each of the reservoir rock localities to be visited.

Field days will visit from a selection of the following:

Devonian clastics (NE Scotland)

Mid Jurassic clastics

Mid Jurassic carbonates

Upper Jurassic clastics

Upper Jurassic carbonates

Upper Cretaceous carbonates

These field studies will be illuminated by relevant seismic data, wireline data, core descriptions and photographs, core analysis data and petrographic data from actual working oil and gas fields to illustrate and link observations made from typical petroleumreservoir studies to 3D outcrop observations and studies.

Core store days to study:

Palaeocene sandstones

Mid Jurassic limestones

These core store study days will be added to by reference to relevant seismic data, wireline data, relevant core analysis data and petrographic data from actual working oil and gas fields to illustrate and link observations made from typical reservoir studies (seismic and wirelinedata, core analysis and petrographic data) to core-based observations.

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Description: Introductory lectures explaining background and philosophy of the field course
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 2 - Group-work
Description: This is the time required to make five A3 posters during the JUne field course. Each will be performed as group work. Each one will address a specific issue related to subsurface reservoirs utilizing data gleaned during the field work. The assessments will be on: Upper Jurassic sandstone (Brora), Devonian sandstones (Cromarty and Pease Bay); Mid Jurassic sandstone (Scarborough); Upper Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic carbonates (East Yorkshire); Permian and Triassic sandstones (Morayshire)
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 3 - Field Work
Description: Fieldwork includes travel time to NE Scotland, N Yorkshire, E Yorkshire
Attendance Recorded: Yes