Formation Evaluation

This course is suitable for all engineers and technicians dealing with open hole well log data. This would apply to engineers in the various disciplines in the oil companies. Engineers from drilling, reservoir, geology, production, geophysics and Petrophysics departments will benefit from this course. Moreover, engineers and technicians dealing with log processing, log interpretations, data processing and IT engineers dealing with data management and databases will find this course of special benefit.

•    An overview of statistical methods
•    Porosity cross plot methods
•    Lithology cross plot methods
•    Saturation cross plot methods
•    Log and core calibration for porosity, saturation and lithology
•    Core based electrical rock properties (Formation factor, resistivity index and excess conductivity
•    What is shale and clay
•    Porosity models and shale
•    Total porosity analysis methods
•    Effective porosity analysis methods
•    Shaley sand models (Dual-Water, Waxman-Smits and Thomas-Steiber)
•    Low resistivity low contrast pay example
•    Pore geometry effects on saturation, porosity and production
•    Vshale and Vclay example
•    Quality assurance and shalely sand analysis
•    Saturation exercise
•    Mechanical Rock Properties and Petrophysical Rock Types are discussed as intepretation methods.
•    Overview of image logs and the importance of integration to core is discussed.  
•    Petrophysical Core to log calibration is introduced
•    Quality assurance from operations and interpretation
•    Depositional environments and dip/image log applications
•    Reservoir characterization applications (faults, fractures, and intrinsic properties)
•    DSI principles and operation
•    Mechanical rock properties 
•    MDT/RFT principles and operation
•    Pressure measurement quality control
•    Gradient analysis; MDT/RFT and free water level
•    Geopressure and basin analysis
•    MDT and fluid sampling
•    Reservoir drive and fluid properties
•    Reservoir performance predictive exercise
•    Practical applications of Flow Units are introduced as a describe small scale compartmentalization.   
•    Mineral models are introduced
•    Fundamental methods are discussed