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The Department has a number of facilities for teaching and research purposes:
 
Workstations
  • State of the art workstations, for integrated oil field interpretation donated by Shell Nigeria, Mobil Nigeria and Chevron Nigeria.

Software

  1. Kingdom Suite of Seismic Micro-Technology
  2. Oasis Montaj of Geosoft Corporation
  3. SeisVision of Landmark Graphics in collaboration with Shell Nigeria
  4. Geoframes of Schlumberger (in view) in collaboration with ExxonMobil Nigeria
Vehicles:
To facilitate our fieldwork programmes, the Department has four vehicles
  • 26-seater Toyota bus donated by Chevron Nigeria Limited
  •  16-seater Hiace bus donated by our alumni in ExxonMobil
  • 16-seater Urvan bus donated by our alumni in ExxonMobil and
  • Four-wheel drive Isuzu Trooper vehicle (funded by ExxonMobil)
Laboratory Equipment:

Various Laboratory equipment are available in the Department. They include:
  • Microscopes: Petrographic microscopes, reflecting microscopes and palynological microscopes.
  • Rock cutting and pulverizing machines
  • X-tray Diffractometer
  • X-ray Fluorescence Machines
  • Fume Chambers, and,
  • et cetera
Geology Museum:
  • The Geology Museum contains a vast collection of rocks, minerals and other geological specimens.

Acquisition of other materials/equipment/machines for geological/geophysical analyses and interpretation has been initiated by the Department.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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