Applied Coring and Well Logging for Enhanced Reservoir Characterization

What are the Goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Design good coring program and minimize rock alteration
• Determine rock properties using routine and special core analyses
• Interpret, and apply different logging methods for clean and shale reservoirs
• Integrate/correlate core and log data for well correlations
• Apply different techniques for identification/characterization of flow units.

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Petroleum Engineers & Reservoir Engineers
• Geologists, Petrophysicists, and Geophysicists
• Geological engineers & other discipline engineers
• Engineers who are new to the profession
• Other individuals who need to know about current & advanced techniques of in reservoir characterization

Daily Agenda

Day One: Integrated Core Analysis and Coring Program

• Integrated coring program
• Coring definition and objectives
• Coring types  and coring  analysis techniques
• Workflow for required core analysis
• Contents of coring program and coring report
• Selection of coring fluids and applied coring tools

Day Two: Coring Protocol and Lab Measurements

• Coring types and coring protocol
• Essential reservoir rock properties
• Whole coring, sidewall, and other coring types
• Definition and equations for reservoir rock properties
• Lab Measurements and Calculations of rock properties
• RCAL-Porosity,  Permeability, and Saturation

Day Three: Special Core Analysis (SCAL) Measurement

• Special Core Analysis (SCAL) Lab Measurements:
• Capillary Pressure: uses and measurement methods
• Rock Wettability: implications and measurement methods
• Relative Permeability: steady-state and unsteady-state techniques
• Effect of wettability alteration on relative permeability and oil recovery
• Limitations of current laboratory measurement techniques
• Applications of rock properties in reservoir and production engineering

Day Four: Principles and Analysis of Well Logging Methods

• Well Logging Methods
• Permeable zone methods: SP and Gamma Ray
• Electric resistivity well logging methods
• Porosity logs: Neutron, Density, and Acoustic
• Water saturation using Archie’s equation with its limitations
• Water saturation of shaly formations using different models
• Log-Core Correlation: Applications and Importance
• Rock Mechanical Properties: Why and How to determine?

Day Five: Reservoir Characterization of Flow Units

• Core characterization and correlations of well logging Data
• Advanced core analysis: newly-developed tools in the Industry
• Limitations and applications of correlations for reservoir description
• Different techniques identifying flow units of heterogeneous reservoirs
• Advanced technique for Reservoir Characterization Using Different Sources of Data