Petroleum cheatsheet
Matt HallI have just finished teaching one semester of Petroleum Geoscience at Dalhousie University. It's not quite over: I am still marking, marking, marking. The experience was all of the following, mostly simultaneously:
- scarily exposing
- surprisngly eye-opening
- deeply exhausting
- personally motivating
- professionally educational
- ultimately satisying
- predominantly fun
Lucrative? No, but I did get paid. Regrettable? No, I'm very happy that I did it. I'm not certain I'd do it again... perhaps if it was the very same course, now that I have some material to build on.
One of the things I made for my students was a cheatsheet. I'd meant to release it into the wild long ago, but I'm pleased to say that today I have tweaked and polished and extended it and it's ready. There will doubtless be updates as our cheatsheet faithful expose my schoolboy errors (please do!), but version 1.0 is here, still warm from the Inkscape oven.
This is the fifth cheatsheet in our collection. If you find a broken link, do let us know, as I have moved them into a new folder today. Enjoy!
Reader Comments (8)
Are all those labels in the bottom right box supposed to be "Conventional global reserves" or is this a copy-paste helmet malfunction? I suspect malfunction, else what be the differences? I suspect not all are "reserves". Pretty though.
@Paul: Ha, great spot... thank you. I stupidly took the footnotes away, because I didn't have room for them. But they're kind of important! You can see the footnotes here on SubSurfWiki.org, though I admit I need to add some detail. In a nutshell, they are all different estimates of conventional global reserves.
I will fix the omission and put up a new version later this evening. Thanks again!
Matt: While you're revising, you might want to check why poor old Saudi Aramco only have 306Mboe reserves.
@Richie: Saudi who? Do they have more than that? :) I'm on it... Thanks!
@Matt: Hi, seems like the file is corrupted or something, just won't open after the download.
Hi Matt,
This is a fantastic resource. With your permission, I'd love to include it on the Careers and Industry Guide (http://www.miningoilgasjobs.com.au) We would cite you as author and link back, of course. What do you think?
I would put it both in the Training & Development and Oil & Gas sections.
Cheers,
Sarah
@Sarah: Thanks for the compliment. You are welcome to use it and anything else we make — it's all licensed CC-BY. Cheers!
Dear Matt,
Many a thanks for such a wonderful compilation of information that you made. I was looking for this for many years.
Your cheat sheets are great help for my regular job. Thanks a lot.
Cheers,
Arindam