OPERATION GEOLOGY

  • Discipline: Reservoir Engineering
  • Level: Fundamental
  • Duration: 3 Days
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  • Plan and prepare for a drilling location and for geological services
  • Identify drilling operations and geological drilling hazards
  • Understand and apply logging services
  • Understand well testing services
  • Evaluate drilling reports
  • Describe drilling cuttings and cores
  • Evaluate the impact on the field development plan
  • Prepare and compile operations reports
  1. Drilling overview
  • Types of drilling(hole size and hole geometry|)
  • Rig types(onshore rigs, offshore rigs)
  • Bit types
  • Casing operations(types of casing, cement job)
  • Mud properties (types of drilling mud)
  1. Logging units and systems
  • Mud logging
  • Wireline logging operation
  • LWD and MWD operations
  • Formation evaluation logs
  1. Wellsite geology
  • Cuttings sampling and preparation
  • Cuttings description (clastics, carbonates, evaporates)
  • Reporting procedures
  • Lithology logs
  • Oil and gas shows evaluation
  • Uv light and solvent tests
  • Gas detection equipment
  • Oil shows interpretation
  1. Cutting sample evaluation
  • Cutting catchers
  • Microscope
  • Dry oven
  • Calcimetry
  • Oil shows interpretation
  • Uv light (oil shows)
  1. Coring operations
  • Conventional coring
  • Sidewall cores

All geoscientists, petroleum engineers, well engineers, and technical personnel, who in the course of their career will attend or direct subsurface.

No Prerequisites required for this course