GEO4260 ¨C Geophysical Monitoring

Course content

This course provides the theoretical background and practical understanding of subsurface monitoring with special emphasis on the integration of multi-disciplinary data. The topics are central to those planning to work as a geoscientist (geologist / geophysicist / petrophysicist / rock physicist) within the energy industry for CO2 storage, hydrogen storage, geothermal energy and hydrocarbon exploitation.

Learning outcome

When you have completed this course,

• you are familiar with seismic attributes and can carry out seismic inversion and AVO modelling/analyses using the Geosoftware suites of Geoview, GeoAI, RockSI, Pro4D and EMERGE of Hampson-Russel's software
• you can do fluid substitutions and calculations based on the Biot-Gassmann and Brie theories
• you understand the use of 4D seismic data for monitoring CO2 storage, hydrogen storage, geothermal energy and producing hydrocarbon fields
• you can explain the role of reservoir simulation, rock physics and seismic as used in reservoir monitoring
• you acquire a combination of knowledge of basic theory and skills in themes such as rock physics, 3D and 4D seismic analysis to contribute to a technological development for understanding the earth's interior and how they can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and encroachment on nature
• you gain knowledge and skills within geophysical monitoring techniques that enable them to contribute and further develop for the safe storage of future energy deep inside the ground

Admission to the course

Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other master's degree programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with GEO9260 ¨C Geophysical Monitoring.

Teaching

Five hours of lectures and exercises per week throughout the semester. A complete 1-week intensive mandatory data lab for subsurface monitoring employing Hampson-Russel software (approx. 35 hours). From the lab course, a data assignment shall be submitted that counts towards the final grade.

Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Student?administration (studieinfo@geo.uio.no).

We reserve the right to change the teaching?form and examination of the course in semesters where 5 or fewer students have been admitted.

Examination

• Attendance to the 1-week data lab for subsurface monitoring needs to be approved in order to sit the final exam.?
• The data assignments count 40% towards the final grade.
• A final written exam counts 60% towards the final grade.
• Both the data assignments and the final written exam?must be passed separately in order to pass the course.

Mandatory assignments are valid for 5 semesters starting from the semester they were approved the first time.

It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you?withdraw from the exam?after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.

It will also be counted as 1 of the 3 attempts to sit the exam for this course?if you sit the exam for the following course:

• GEO9260 ¨C Geophysical Monitoring

Examination support material

Approved calculator

Language of examination

The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about?the grading system.

Resit an examination

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are?offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.

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