Advanced Formation Evaluation - Sandstone Reservoir - RILS

Module 1  (Duration 4 hours)

• Course Introduction
• Pre-Course Technical Assessment
• Geology of clastics reservoirs
• The Gamma Ray and Spontaneous Potential logs to obtain Vsh and Formation Water Salinity
• Defining the clay type
• Practical Workshop
• Assign out of class bonus assignment

Module 2 (Duration 4 hours)

• Summarize key learnings from Day 1
• Overview of standard logging tools
• Summary of Archie equation
• Quick Look Log Evaluation Techniques
• Conceptual 3-Line visual log technique
• Practical workshops
• Day 2 quiz
• Assign out of class assignment 
  

Module 3 (Duration 4 hours)

• Summarize key learnings from Day 2
• Applications of the density-neutron cross plot to determine effective porosity, total porosity, hydrocarbon effect and shale volume 
• Hydrocarbon effects on density-neutron cross-plots
  

• Practical workshops

• Day 3  quiz

• Assign out of class assignment 
  

Module 4 (Duration 4 hours)

• Summarize key learnings from Day 3
• Acoustic measurements and the acoustic scanner to determine sand compaction and mechanical properties
• Summary of Core-Log Integration
• Well 1 and Well 2 Workshops
• Practical Workshops
  

• Day 4 quiz

• Assign out of class assignment 
  

Module 6 (Duration 4 hours)

• Summarize key learnings from Day 5
• Module 6 Learning objectives inlcude
• Overview of shales and their depositional environments 
• The various procedures to estimate Vsh. 
• Estimating Vsh from spectroscopy from direct measurements of Al or obtaining an Al emulator
  
• Practical Workshops
  

• End of Day 6 quiz

• Assign out of class assignment

Module 7 (Duration 4 hours)

• Summarize key learnings from Day 6
• Module 7 Learning Objectives Include
• Defining the volumes of dispersed and laminated shales using Thomas-Stieber and Popoun-Juasz . 
• Evaluating the Cations Exchange Capacity (CEC) of shales  
• Evaluating the silt volumes from standard logs. 
• Definition of volume of clay
• Determining volume of clay
  
• Practical Workshops
  

• Day 7 Quiz

• Assign out of class assignment

Module 8 (Duration 4 hours)

• Summarize key learnings from Day 7
• Module 8 - Shaly Sand Learning Objectives include
• The family of empirically derived equations used 
• Excess Conductivity shaly sand equations: Waxman-Smits (WS), Dual-Water, Modified W-S 
• Comparison of the results from the various equation
  
• Practical Workshops
  

• End of Day 8 Quiz

• Assign out of class assignment
  

Session (Duration 4 hours)
• Summarize key learnings from Day 8
• Module 9 (2.5 hrs) Overview of High Tech. Tools  -  Applications in Shaly-Sand Formations
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Dielectric Logs, Micro-resistivity Imaging
• Permeability Estimations in Sandstone-Reservoirs
• Module 10  (1.5 hrs) Overview of Reservoir Petrophysics
• Overview of Capillary Pressure
• Practical Workshops
  

• End of Day 9 quiz

• Assign out of class assignment

Session (Duration 4 hours)
• Summarize key learnings from Day 9
• Module 10 Continued (4 hrs) - Overview of Reservoir Petrophysics
• Introduction to Petrophysical Rock Types
• Introduction Applied Capillary Pressure and Saturation Height Modeling
• Introduction to Applied Flow Units with Modified Lorenz Methods
• Practical Workshops
  

• End of Course Post Technical Assessment

• Course evaluation