Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geologist, geophysicist, reservoir engineer or petrophysicist who will recommend or use core analysis results
• A core analyst, formation damage specialist or laboratory technician working to develop improved laboratory measurements and procedures
• A database professional tasked with developing core and rock property databases

How we build your confidence

• Concise summaries of the techniques, equipment and measurement basics for conventional, special and imaging rock property measurements are provided
• You learn the best combination of tests and techniques for an optimal core analysis program
• You learn to evaluate and analyse the raw data, calculate the uncertainty and incorporate the results
• You learn to evaluate and integrate the measured engineering properties with well logs, tests and simulation models

The benefits from attending

• Coring operations, core types, sizes and limitations
• Core handling procedures and non-destructive qualitative and quantitative core characterisation
• Techniques, uncertainty, and quality control for routine and special core analyses
• Resistivity, dielectric, and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques and fundamentals for saturation measurements and models
• Capillarity and pore structure methods
• Experimental techniques and uncertainty for multi-phase displacement mechanisms and specialized tests for formation evaluation, carbon capture, usage, and storage

Topics

• Core planning and implementation – engineering objectives, specialized coring techniques, equipment, and core handling
• Core quality control and sample selection, highlighting the use of x-ray CT techniques for heterogeneity, characterization, and log calibration
• Conventional core analyses for porosity, permeability, mineralogy, and saturation
• Rock mechanics tests and adjustments of conventional results to reservoir conditions
• Quality control of conventional tests and validation with well tests and logs
• Examples and exercises

• Electrical property measurements (resistivity and dielectric) with models for carbonates and shaly sands
• NMR techniques for petrophysics and fluid typing
• Capillarity and wettability measurement techniques and models
• Saturation height function applications including use of J functions, Thomeer parameters and Corey exponent models
• Examples and exercises

• Single phase dispersivity and multi-phase relative permeability displacement tests and methods
• Basic relative permeability determinations and laboratory programs
• Averaging and Quality control of SCAL tests
• Upscaling and preparing relative permeability results for reservoir simulation
• Examples and Exercises

• Specialized tests for stimulation, EOR, and unconventionals
• Specialized tests for CO2 and hydrogen storage including reservoir seal and damage tests
• Introduction to digital rock methods in core analysis
• Review and discussions