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    3. Petrophysics, Quick Look and Log Quality Control

    Petrophysics, Quick Look and Log Quality Control

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    • 5 Days
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    This course covers the following topics:

    • Geology of Carbonates and Clastics
    • Gamma Ray (GR) and Spontaneous Potential: Tool physics and applications to estimate clay volume, clay type and formation water salinities.
    • Porosity and Lithology: Density and Neutron tool physics and applications
    • Acoustics: Tool physics and applications for rock mechanics, well bore stability, and secondary porosity
    • Resistivity Measurements: Tool physics of Shallow Rxo, Laterolog and Induction and High Technology resistivity tools.
    • Introduction to High Technology Tools: NMR, Borehole Imaging, Dielectric  and Wireline Formation Testing.
    • Interpretations: This covers the evaluation of:
      • Clay Volume (Vsh, Vcl),
      • Estimating the parameters of “m” and “n” in the Archie Equation,
      • Quick look techniques to estimate the oil/water, gas/water and oil/gas contacts, salinity estimations of formation water and filtrate water, and unmoved hydrocarbon zones
      • Estimation of water saturations in shaly-sands.

    Workshops: 1-2 hours daily of workshop examples
    Day 1
    • Reservoir Rock; Life of a well
    • Tool Conveyance, depth Control, filtrate Invasion profiling
    • Basics of Logging, Log Quality Control
    Day 2
    • GR Spectroscopy
    • The Spontaneous Potential
    • Acoustic Log, secondary porosity, rock mechanical properties and wellbore stability
    • The density and photoelectric capture cross section
    • The Neutron Log, neutron spectroscopy and sigma neutron capture cross-section
    Day 3
    • Density-Neutron applications for lithology, shale volume and effective and total porositiesBasics of Resistivity and the Archie Equation
    • The concept and applications of the Formation Factor (FF) as a variable –m emulator
    • Resistivity measurements in the invaded zone (Rxo)
    • Resistivity measurements in the uninvaded zone using Induction and Laterolog
    • The concept and applications of laterolog and induction array resistivity measurements
    Day 4
    • Introduction to High Technology Tools
    • Dielectric measurements
    • Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its applications
    • Borehole imaging
    Day 5
    • Interpretation overview of important petrophysics parameters
    • Estimating fluid salinities-Porosity-Lithology
    • Wettability and the saturation exponent (n)
    • Estimation of the volume of shale
    • Computing the values of Sw using different techniques in clean and shaly formations

    This course will be suitable for all geoscientists and engineers who will benefit greatly from a strong foundation in petrophysics, logging tool physics and log interpretations. This course will also be particularly useful to all new hires who will be working in upstream domains. 

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