This course is designed for geoscientists and engineers wishing to become skilled in the evaluation and application of bulk chemical, stable carbon isotope, and biomarker data now routinely available for oils and source-rock extracts. The course is exercise-based, using sample oils from GeoMark’s RFDbase.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to: 1) describe the origin and history of individual oils, and 2) be able to use this knowledge to (typically) determine source-rock lithology, depositional environment, geologic age, and thermal maturity of expelled fluids.