By the end of the course, participant will be able to:

• Design coring programs and maximize recovery

• Preserve core to minimize rock alteration

• Take and analyze sidewall cores

• Use cores to estimate porosity, permeability, and fluid saturation  

• Prevent/spot errors in core analysis vendor reports   

• Select samples for special core studies

• Correlate core and log data

• Coring and core analysis objectives

• Coring hardware and maximizing core recovery

• Core-handling, wellsite procedures, and preservation methods

• Sidewall coring and analysis

• Organizing effective laboratory programs

• Porosity, permeability and fluid saturation

• Quality control in core analysis

• Petrography and mineralogy

• Special core analysis sample selection and statistical data     analysis

• Core-log correlation

• Wettability, relative permeability, capillary pressure, and reservoir fluid distribution

• Data integration in reservoir simulation

• Final problem

• Lab tour

 Participants are encouraged to bring data examples related to this course.

1. ·        Reservoir Engineers

2. ·        Exploration and Development Geologists

3. ·        Core and Log analysts

4. ·        Geophysicists

5. ·        Drilling and Completion Engineers.