Courses

This remote delivered course covers advanced knowledge and expertise in formation evaluations in carbonates, clastics and basement rock and will be suitable for all geoscientists and engineers, It can be delivered as public or private.  The agenda can customized to for private offerings.

• Geology of Carbonates and Clastics
• Core analysis to obtain porosity, and permeability
• Shale Analysis: Elemental Capture Spectroscopy to give evaluations of lithology and shale volume, evaluation of dispersed and laminated shales, definition and measurement of the Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)
• Thin Beds (TB) and Low resistivity pay (LRP) zones: This is an outline of the various techniques to evaluate TB and LRP reservoirs including borehole imaging, NMR and Rt Scanner
• Log Interpretations in Clastics: This covers the various shaly-sand equations both the empirical versions (e.g. Indonesia, Nigeria, etc..) and the excess conductivity equations (e.g. Waxman-Smits, Dual Water, etc..)
• Permeability estimations in clastics reservoirs
• Geology and Petrophysics of Basement Rock
• Log Interpretations in Carbonates that covers the following: 
  • Variable-m and the Formation Factor
  • Wettability and variable-n from logs
  • Effect of Vugs and fractures
  • Macro and Microporosity
  • Permeability estimations in Carbonates
• Pore Geometry and Flow Units covering:
  • Capillary Pressure Measurements and capillary pressure obtained from NMR
  • Introduction to Petrophysical Rock Typing
  • Flow Units applying modified Lorenz principle
  • Introduction to Saturation Height Modeling

Workshops: 1-2 hours daily of workshop examples