·This course that covers wireline logging, MWD-LWD and their specific applications for wellbore stability. This course will be suitable for all drilling engineers, directional drillers and other geoscientists associated with drilling.

1.     Reservoir Rock and Life of a well

2.     Tool Conveyance, Depth Control

3.     Well bore stability and filtrate diameter of invasion

4.     The mud log and its applications

5.     Basics of Logging

6.     Log Quality Control

7.     GR Spectroscopy and its application to determine clay type

8.     The Spontaneous Potential and its applications to estimate water salinity and volume of shale

9.     Acoustic Log: secondary porosity, rock mechanical properties  and wellbore stability

10.  The density and photoelectric cross section

11.  The Neutron Log, neutron spectroscopy and sigma neutron capture cross-section

12.  Density-Neutron applications for lithology, shale volume and effective and total porosities

13.  Density-Neutron applications for lithology, shale volume and effective and total porosities

14.  Basics of Resistivity and the Archie Equation

15.  The concept and applications of the Formation Factor (FF) as a variable –m emulator

16.  Resistivity measurements in the invaded zone (Rxo)

17.  Resistivity measurements in the uninvaded zone using Induction and Laterolog

18.  The concept and applications of array resistivity measurements

19.  Wireline Formation Testing

20.  Measurement While Drilling (MWD) and Logging While Drilling (LWD)

21.  Data acquisition of porosity, lithology, Pulsed Neutron Sigma and resistivities

22.  Formation Pressure

23.  Geosteering basics

24.  Seismic

25.  Acoustic

26.  Shale Volume (Vsh, Vcl) evaluation and clay type- Dispersed or laminated shales

27.  Estimating the parameters of "m" and "n" in the Archie Equation,

28.  Quick look techniques to estimate the oil / water, gas/water and oil/gas contacts,

29.  Salinity estimations of formation water and filtrate water,

30.  Estimation of porosity, lithology and water saturations in clean and in shaly-sands

This course will be suitable for all drilling engineers, directional drillers and other geoscientists associated with drilling.