Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geologist, geophysicist, petrophysicist or engineer involved in the petrophysical evaluation of shale and tight reservoirs
• A professional in the oil and gas industry seeking to develop intermediate-level formation evaluation skills for unconventional reservoirs

How we build your confidence

• This course employs proven adult learning techniques ensuring maximum understanding and retention.
• Sessions include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements covering different learning modalities.
• Daily sessions are highly interactive and participatory, featuring regular discussions of real-world applications and case studies from major unconventional plays worldwide. This involves regular discussion of the applications, as well as practical exercises that will be solved manually and/or using Microsoft Excel

The benefits from attending

• Analyse fluid distribution in unconventional dual-porosity reservoirs
• Determine how maturation affects pore distribution and connate water salinity
• Distinguish geologic environments that require special logging tools
• Develop special core analysis approaches to calibrate or validate petrophysical models
• Apply multi-mineral stochastic inversion techniques to determine complex mineralogy with uncertainty quantification
• Integrate probabilistic modelling approaches with deterministic methods for comprehensive reservoir characterisation
• Evaluate total organic carbon (TOC) using multiple calibrated approaches
• Accurately quantify clay-bound water and free water volumes
• Select the most appropriate interpretation approach for a specific reservoir

Topics

• Introduction to well logging
• Physical principles and theories behind log measurements
• Basic and advanced logging tools and their applications in unconventional reservoirs

• Normalisation techniques for well logs
• Quality control procedures for log data
• Understanding measurement errors and their impact on resource evaluation

• Log responses related to mineralogy
• Interpretation methods for mineralogical analysis from logs
• Multimineral stochastic interpretation
• Quantitative mineralogy estimation using log and core data

• Clay mineral identification from well logs
• Clay responses in different formations, clay evaluation tools for unconventional reservoirs
• Clay-bound water estimation from log and core data

• Introduction to Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
• TOC estimation methods using well logs and various core measurements
• Application of TOC models
• Porosity in unconventional reservoirs

• Porosity determination with several logging tools, what do they measure?
• Estimating secondary porosity with well logs
• Different porosity models, their assumptions, and NMR log and core measurements

• Introduction to fluid saturation and its significance
• Interpretation methods for fluid saturation using standard and specialty well logs
• Unconventional reservoir saturation models

• Core analysis techniques for permeability determination
• Log-based permeability estimation models
• Permeability from formation tests
• Integration of multiple measurements for dual permeability evaluation

• Introduction to rock mechanics and its importance in field development
• Logging tools for rock mechanical analysis
• Interpretation of rock mechanical properties and its different applications in vertical and horizontal wells

• Determine key petrophysical properties for reservoir characterisation, e.g., Kerogen Volume, PHIT, VSHALE, VCBW, PHIE
• Calibrate logs by determining PHIT and PHIE at specific depths using logs and core analysis information
• Reconstruct wireline logs from XRD, lab data and Pyrolysis information
• Perform a multimineral stochastic analysis with wireline logs to determine reservoir mineralogy
• Calculate water saturation and effective porosity under various conditions using several saturation equations, select the most appropriate for the reservoir
• Do a complete well evaluation in a complex lithology reservoir (group exercise)