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    The document outlines various petroleum exploration methods, including drilling techniques like rotary and directional drilling, borehole geophysics to analyze rock formations using logs, surface geophysics using gravity and seismic surveys, remote sensing techniques like aerial imaging and radar, and subsurface geologic mapping through well log correlation and seismic modeling.

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    Overview of Petroleum Exploration Methods

    I.

    Drilling Techniques
    a. Cable Tool Drilling
    b. Rotary Drilling
    i. Air Rotary
    ii. Mud Rotary
    c. Directional Drilling
    i. vertical drilling
    ii. horizontal drilling

    II.

    Borehole Geophysics ("wireline geophysics")


    a. Physical Logs
    i. Caliper Logging
    ii. Temperature Logging
    iii. Pressure Logging
    b. Electric Logs
    i. SP logging - spontaneous potential
    ii. Resistivity Logging
    c. Radioactivity Logs
    i. Natural Gamma Ray Logging
    ii. Neutron Logging
    iii. Density Logging
    d.
    e.
    f.
    g.

    III.

    Sonic (Acoustic) Logs


    Combination Logs
    Dip Meter Logs
    Borehole Imaging

    Surface Geophysics
    a. Gravity Surveying
    b. Magnetic Surveying
    c. Seismic Surveying
    i. Reflection Seismology
    ii. Refraction Seismology

    IV.

    Remote Sensing
    a.
    b.
    c.
    d.

    V.

    Conventional Aerial vs. Satellite Imaging


    Visual Remote Sensing
    Radar and Lidar
    Multispectral Scanning

    Subsurface Geologic Mapping


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    a. Geological Cross Sections


    i. Well Log Correlation
    ii. Stratigraphic Analysis
    b. Geological Mapping
    i. Facies Maps
    ii. Isopach Maps
    iii. Structure Contour Maps
    c. Seismic Modelling
    i. Seismic Facies Analysis
    ii. Seismic Sequence Analysis
    iii. 3-D Seismic Modelling

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