Advanced Reservoir Petrophysics

Course details

Advanced Reservoir Petrophysics Course 

Course Outlines   

The first day

• Introduction to Petrophysics

• What is Petrophysics?
• What are the Rock Physical properties?
• Petrophysics as a key-discipline in integrated reservoir analysis
• Petrophysical properties of reservoir rock
• Reservoir rocks and types
• reservoir analysis, reservoir models
• Porosity
• permeability
• relative permeability
• Capillary pressure
• water saturation
• fluid contacts

• Introduction to Well Logging

• What is Well Logging?
• Fundamentals of well logging
• Introduction to Open-Hole Logging   
• The borehole and its environment
• Open hole and cased hole logging

• Logging Tools Operation
• Log Quality Control
• Quick Look Well Log Interpretation

The second day

• Acoustic methods
• Nuclear methods
• Lithology Tools: GR, NGT, SP
•  Porosity Tools: BHC, FDC, CNL, APS, LDT, DSI
•  Resistivity Tools: DLL, DIL, MSFL, HRLA, ARI, AIT
•  Cased-Hole Logging Tools
• Other Tools:( Nuclear magnetic methods) NMR, CMR, MDT, ECS
• Geological Tools ( Imaging methods): FMS, FMI
• Thermal Decay Time (TDT, RST)
• Cement Bond (CBL-VDL)
• Production Logging (PLT)
• Other Tools: EPT
•  Dipmeter, RFT
•  Introduction to Logging While Drilling (LWD) and MWD techniques

The third day

• Log analysis - formation evaluation
• Fundamental problems of formation evaluation Profile
• reservoir detection Reservoir characterization
• Basic interpretation methods Vshale, porosity, water saturation Permeable zones
• Advanced interpretation methods
• Combined determination of porosity and rock composition Cross plot methods

• Shaly sand interpretation Fractured reservoirs
• Thin bed evaluation and anisotropic reservoirs Integrating the information; the   reservoir model
• Saturation determination, movable fluids

• Permeability estimation

• Exercises: Calculations of GR, SP, Sonic, etc.
• Lithology interpretation
• Lithology Determination
• Lithology Model
• Lithological Parameters
• Porosity calculation
• Rw determination
• Petrophysical parameters (a, m, n)
• Archie's Parameters
• Vshale estimation
• Fluid Saturation
• Permeability prediction
•   Permeability calculation   
• Practical Exercises

The fourth day

• Rock Physics (from core and log)

• Porosity Types
• Permeability
• Permeability and Porosity Relationships
• Fluid Saturation
• Lithology Interpretation

• Vsh Calculation
• Rw determination methods
• Petrophysical parameters (a,m,n)
• Archie's Relationship
• Core Analysis and Core-Log Relationships

• Advanced Formation Evaluation

• Reservoir Petrophysical Model Evaluation
• Modern Approaches and Techniques in Petrophysics
• Multi-Well Bases Study Using:
  • Multi-Well Data-Base
  • Key Well Study
• Data Normalization
• Most Problematic Parameters
• Old Methods (Constant Value)
• New Methods (Variable Values)

• Introduction to Computer Processed Interpretation

• Hydrocarbon Quality
• Fluid Contacts (GOC-GWC-OWC-ODT-WUT-FWL)
• Reservoir Summations
• Practical Training Exercises on & Case Studies Including:
• Carbonate reservoir (Limestone) from Gulf area
• Clastics reservoir (Sandstone) from Egypt
• Gas tight Sandstone reservoir from Algeria

Who should attend?

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

• Lectures, group work, case studies, and Application on Software.