Applied Petrophysics (Basic and Advanced courses)

Who should attend?

Engineers in exploration and production departments. Geologists, seismologists and petroleum, petrophysical, reservoir and drilling engineers.

Overview:

Petrophysics and well log analysis help geologists to quantify and understand the distribution of reservoir properties in the subsurface. For reservoir engineers it is essential to build reliable models. The concepts for a wide range of applied tools must be understood for any accurate well evaluation.

The courses deal with fundamental petrophysical relations, principles, modern interpretation methods and core measurements. The importance of the interaction between seismology, geology, well log analysis, reservoir engineering and other disciplines is emphasised and illustrated. During the course, a quick-look petrophysical evaluation of one or more typical wells will be performed. At the end of the course, participants will have a better understanding of the petrophysical calculation procedures and the uncertainties of the results.

Content:

• Quality, editing and responses of the major open hole logging devices
• Lithology, including shale volume, porosity, permeability
• Hydrocarbon contents, using Archie, Simandoux, Waxman-Smits, Indonesia, dual-water, capillary pressure curves and wireline formation testing
• Core analysis programming for exploration and development wells
• Crossplots for lithology, porosity and oil/water/gas saturation
• Capillary pressure curves
• Cut-off criteria to arrive at average reservoir properties
• Uncertainty analysis

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