Petrophysics Courses

The first two days cover all standard and modern well-logging measurements. The third day focuses on how the tool measurements are used to determine important formation properties related to exploration and well completion. The fourth day covers Specialty logs. The fifth day covers well logs used to evaluate producing wells. Both Wireline and LWD methods are covered and differentiated.

This course is designed for engineers and geoscientist that have some interest to learn more about petrophysics. Participants will gain the ability to read and understand a set of oil well logs and briefly produce quantitative interpretations, and be able to perform some calculations based on local knowledge about Gulf of Mexico Formation (based on industry standards).

This short course is intended for all technical professionals in the oil and gas industry, including trainee petroleum engineers, petrophysicists, geoscientists, and operations personnel who need an introduction to technical theory and techniques used in log interpretation and formation evaluation.

A five-day classroom course, which introduces advanced petrophysical concepts and their use in difficult lithology environments such as complex carbonates, shaly sands and thin-bed evaluation.   An overview is also presented of problems encountered in using well-logs for shale-oil/shale-gas evaluation. The first two days cover all standard and modern open-hole well-logging measurements, both Wireline and LWD, and the remaining days cover more advanced topics including NMR, Multipole Acoustic and Dielectric measurements, dipmeter/imaging logs and their use in correlation, mineralogy and saturation determination. The principal cased-hole measurements are also presented, including reservoir fluid-level monitoring, corrosion, recent developments in cement-bond evaluation, and the issues concerning optimal perforation procedures are discussed

This short course introduces fundamental log quality control concepts for all open hole logs usually run in wells. The participants will learn how to effectively control the quality of all logs in real time. The exercises are developed with actual logs ran in real wells, so the participants will be exposed to log quality control on real data. At the end of the course the participants will be trained to perform log quality control on real time at wellsite as well as post-morten in the office.

The course covers the fundamentals of the acquisition and interpretation of open hole log data up to intermediate level. It presents the principles underlying the measurement of various properties of rock sequences penetrated in boreholes and covers both the qualitative and quantitative interpretation of the data obtained. It also discusses the recent advances in log data acquisition technology. Acquisition and interpretation of dipmeter and formation image log data are also covered.

This short course introduces basic concepts used for production logging in vertical wells and progresses to more complex cases of highly deviated and horizontal wells, explaining the application, limitations and evolution of the different sensors used in the PL services. Most importantly, the course empowers the attending delegates to tailor data acquisition programs selecting the best set of sensors depending on fluids being produced, well deviation, completions type and objective of the log. The discussion of the response and quality control of each sensor is used to guide the attendees on the process of interpretation, starting from individual sensors and evolving to the combination of two or more sensors to determine fluid type and its quantitative contribution by each of the producing intervals. This short course is illustrated with practical exercise after each topic and quizzes at the end of each day to help the attendees absorb and retain the important concepts of each day and to help the tutor gauge the progress as course progresses.