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Petroleum geoscience encompasses the disciplines most critical for oil and gas exploration and recovery, including petroleum geology, sedimentary, regional, tectonic and structural geology, biostratigraphy, micropaleontology, organic geochemistry, and geophysical exploration and production techniques. The textbook offers a comprehensive overview of petroleum geoscience aimed at geologists entering the petroleum industry, while also serving students of environmental, engineering, and sedimentary geology.
Petroleum geoscience comprises those geoscientific disciplines which are of greatest significance for the exploration and recovery of oil and gas. These include petroleum geology, of which sedimentary geology is the main foundation along with the contextual and modifying principles of regional, tectonic and structural geology. Additionally, biostratigraphy and micropalaeontology, organic geochemistry, and geophysical exploration and production techniques are all important tools for petroleum geoscientists in the 21st century. This comprehensive textbook present an overview of petroleum geoscience for geologists destined for the petroleum industry. It should also be useful for students interested in environmental geology, engineering geology and other aspects of sedimentary geology