PETROPHYSICS FOR DRILLING ENGINEERS
- 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.
- Discipline: Petrophysics
- Level: Fundamental
- Duration: 3 Days
- Reservoir Rock and Life of a well
- Tool Conveyance, Depth Control
- Well bore stability and filtrate diameter of invasion
- The mud log and its applications
- Basics of Logging
- Log Quality Control
- GR Spectroscopy and its application to determine clay type
- The Spontaneous Potential and its applications to estimate water salinity and volume of shale
- Acoustic Log: secondary porosity, rock mechanical properties and wellbore stability
- The density and photoelectric cross section
- The Neutron Log, neutron spectroscopy and sigma neutron capture cross-section
- Density-Neutron applications for lithology, shale volume and effective and total porosities
- Density-Neutron applications for lithology, shale volume and effective and total porosities
- Basics of Resistivity and the Archie Equation
- The concept and applications of the Formation Factor (FF) as a variable –m emulator
- Resistivity measurements in the invaded zone (Rxo)
- Resistivity measurements in the uninvaded zone using Induction and Laterolog
- The concept and applications of array resistivity measurements
- Wireline Formation Testing
- Measurement While Drilling (MWD) and Logging While Drilling (LWD)
- Data acquisition of porosity, lithology, Pulsed Neutron Sigma and resistivities
- Formation Pressure
- Geosteering basics
- Seismic
- Acoustic
- Shale Volume (Vsh, Vcl) evaluation and clay type- Dispersed or laminated shales
- Estimating the parameters of “m” and “n” in the Archie Equation,
- Quick look techniques to estimate the oil / water, gas/water and oil/gas contacts,
- Salinity estimations of formation water and filtrate water,
- 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.