AINA ZA TRAP ZA MAFUTA NA GESI (OIL AND GAS TRAPS)

Oil and Gas Traps All oil and gas deposits are found in structural or stratigraphic traps.  You may have heard that oil is found underground in “pools,” “lakes,” or “rivers.”  Maybe someone told you there was a “sea” or “ocean” of oil underground.  This is all completely wrong, so don’t believe everything you hear. Oil Moving Through Pore Space In Sandstone Most oil and gas...

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HIVI NDIVYO VITU 5 AMBAVYO PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST HUVIFANYA

Prospecting is the work the petroleum geologist does to locate a place to drill a test hole, which hopefully can be turned into a producing oil or gas well! Most petroleum geologists work in an office, where they have access to a lot of data. This includes electric logs, core records, drilling records, scout tickets, and production data. They use the data to construct maps, cross-sections,...

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GEOLOGIST START WITH SEDIMENTARY ROCK

And, the main type of rocks they study are called sedimentary rocks.  Most sedimentary rocks are formed in lakes, rivers, or oceans. Rains fall in higher elevations, forming streams, then rivers.  Rivers and streams carve out tiny bits of solid rock from the landscape and carry them downstream.  If the rock bits are fairly coarse (about the size of salt grains, or larger), they...

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