Petrophysics Courses

  • Petrophysics is fundamental to all aspects of the petroleum business. Principles, applications, and integration of petrophysical information for reservoir description will be discussed in depth. Through a combination of class discussion and exercises/ workshops, participants will learn how to conduct competent quick-look evaluations. Using data from open hole logs, logging-while-drilling, and core data you will evaluate porosity, permeability, and saturation in a variety of reservoirs. Knowing how to integrate petrophysical information with other data sources will improve participants’ ability to assess technical risk when examining hydrocarbon opportunities.

  • This course is designed to introduce types of Wireline logs and the simple analysis of the data they provide. The following sections cover the theory behind the operation of each tool, how each tool operates its advantages and limitations, and its main applications. There is a huge number of tools available in the industry, lots to be covered individually.

  • In this course you will learn how to exploit interpretation techniques to spot exploration opportunities, such as bypassed pay and new resources in existing fields. You will learn how to improve dynamic simulation modelling through integration of petrophysical data. You will study advanced permeability and capillary saturation models, and construction.

  • This course is designed to provide deep understanding of core analysis and well logging for better reservoir characterization. Accurate measurements of routine and special (RCAL&SCAL) rock properties using core analysis and well logging reveal good evidence of hydrocarbon presence, reservoir storage capacity and flow capability. Coring and well logging offer the most tangible and direct means of determining critical reservoir parameters for making important and critical decisions about reservoir management and/or development plus enhanced oil recovery projects

  • Borehole imaging tools provide an image of the borehole wall that is typically based on physical property contrasts. There are currently a wide variety of imaging tools available, though these predominately fall into two categories: resistivity and acoustic imaging tools. The application of image logs in our industry has long been undervalued or not fully appreciated. The interpretation of images is a skill that needs to be learned and the best way to do so is with some of the industries’ leading interpreters. Borehole images, both wireline and LWD can fill a vital data gap between core and seismic data.

  • NMR Petrophysics course will provide geoscientists and engineers with a basic to intermediate skill-level for using NMR data in reservoir characterization workflows. Course design is a balance between information transfer, discussion, training, and practical exercise. The expectation is that participants will return to their jobs with the skill-set shown on the slide below.

  • This course teaches skills necessary to practice the art and science in accurately determining remaining hydrocarbons using modern dual-detector and emerging multi-detector pulsed neutron (PN) tools. The latter can compute multiple petrophysical parameters simultaneously and delineate gas better, especially in low porosity, but add to data and interpretation complexity. The course discusses measurement-to-interpretation techniques used by various players and thus offers an insight into their effectiveness in conditions of increasing wellbore and formation complexities. The user will gain a better understanding of why tools from different service companies, often recording similar raw data in near-identical conditions, may differ significantly in their predictions. The course will help users of the technology make targeted tool choices, plan logging jobs better, and perform in-house interpretation if needed. 

  • 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.

  • The main purpose of high angle and horizontal wells is to maximize reservoir contact and enhance well productivity. To plan and construct such wells requires real-time collaboration between geologists (who need quality formation evaluation data), drillers (who require considerable input from the geologists), and petrophysicists (who interpret the formation evaluation data during the drilling process in order to optimize well placement). This process is generally facilitated by the well placement coordinator.

  • This is an applied course on how to use capillary pressure data to help the user understand what is controlling the fluid distribution, the importance of pore geometry and why water saturation is not an accident.

  • This course teaches you the use and limitations of a variety of production logging tools including spinner, temperature, noise, fluid injections and others tools.   You will learn what results these tools yield, the interpretation assumptions that are integral to their designs, and how quality is affected by the acquisition process.  You will also learn the fundamentals of production log interpretation with hands-on examples and an in-class workshop on interpreting single and two phase flow using production logs.  You will learn how production logs can be used for the measurement of 3 phase fluid flow.

  • This course covers in details the various MWD and LWD tool physics and applications.  This is an opportunity for technical personnel in all domains irrespective of their experience to have a full and wide exposure to the various new technologies of MWD and LWD.

  • This course teaches you advanced techniques for production logging and reservoir monitoring.  You will learn to design a data acquisition program to evaluate wellbore or reservoir behavior based on field development objectives.    You will learn in-depth log interpretation techniques such as interpreting three phase fluid flow in deviated and horizontal wells. You will also learn quick look techniques for log quality control as well as how to plan and integrate multi-source data to complete your evaluation.  Using hands-on examples, you will learn to interpret behind casing resistivity, three phase flow in horizontal wells, and evaluating fluid saturations using logging tools.

  • Petrophysics is fundamental to all aspects of the petroleum business. Principles, applications, and integration of petrophysical information for reservoir description will be discussed in depth. Through a combination of class discussion and exercises/ workshops, participants will learn how to conduct competent quick-look evaluations. Using data from open hole logs, logging-while-drilling, and core data you will evaluate porosity, permeability, and saturation in a variety of reservoirs. Knowing how to integrate petrophysical information with other data sources will improve participants’ ability to assess technical risk when examining hydrocarbon opportunities.

  • for Petrophysicists , Geoscientists , Geophysicists , Engineers , Managers and Supervisors  .

  • 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

  • Petrophysicists , Geoscientists , Geophysicists , Engineers , Managers and Supervisors  .