Foundations of Petrophysics (PP01)

DATE		LOCATION		FEES			REGISTRATION
Oct 3-7, 2010		Tripoli, Libya			Course Fee: EUR 2310

Instructor Jürgen H. Schön

• Introduction
  – Reservoirs, reservoir analysis; reservoir models
  – Reservoir processes and properties
  – Petrophysics as a key-discipline in integrated reservoir analysis
  
• Petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks
  – Reservoir rocks and types
  – Porosity, permeability, relative permeability
  – Capillary pressure, water saturation, fluid contacts
  – Basic rock models
  
• Fundamentals of well logging
  – The borehole and its environment
  – Open hole and cased hole logging
  – Electric and electromagnetic methods
  – Acoustic methods
  – Nuclear methods
  – Nuclear magnetic methods
  – Imaging methods
  – Technical logs
  – LWD and MWD techniques
  – Coring and core investigations, core-log integration
  
• Log analysis – formation evaluation
  – Fundamental problems of formation evaluation
       Profile description and 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
       Saturation determination, movable fluids
       Permeability estimation
       Thin bed evaluation and anisotropic reservoirs
       Integrating the information; the reservoir model