starts: 07/11 10:30 AM
This introductory course is designed as an introduction to petrophysics and petrophysical workflows, which are illustrated with the Techlog log analysis software.
• Reservoir engineering overview
• Fundamentals of reservoir phase behavior
• Darcy’s Law and fundamentals of fluid flow
• Reservoir rock properties
• Fluid statics and distribution
• Reservoir drive mechanisms
• Oil and gas well performance
• Oil displacement concepts
• Shale and clay identification and distribution
• Matrix characteristics
• Fluid characteristics
• Hydrocarbon correction
• Shale correction
• Evaluation of lithology, porosity and water saturation
• Borehole image analyses – fractures and facies
• Permeability prediction
• Pressure measurements, fluid gradients and contacts
• Saturation height relations
• Electrofacies and facies analyses
• Rock typing and petrofacies
• Integration with seismic – depth conversion, fluid substitution
• Cased hole and production logging
• Unconventional reservoirs – TOC, porosity, hydrocarbon content
• Rock fabric classification (Lucia) – vuggy and non-vuggylimestones and dolomites
• Petrophysical interpretation – variable m and n
• Bulk volume water 9BVW)
• Production ratio index (PRI)
• Microporosity and fractures
• Multi-scale models
• Petrophysical models
• Volumetrics and uncertainity