🛢️ Advanced Formation Evaluation in Sandstones

Overview

📘 Course Description

This advanced course equips geologists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers with the tools and techniques needed to evaluate sandstone reservoirs accurately. It focuses on integrating core analysis, petrophysical interpretation, capillary pressure, rock physics, and modern log analysis. Participants will learn to handle complex reservoirs affected by thin beds, low-resistivity pay, shaly sands, and diagenetic alterations. Real-world examples and exercises will help translate theory into practical workflows.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Accurately identify pay zones in challenging sandstone reservoirs
✅ Understand rock types, porosity systems, and reservoir quality indicators
✅ Integrate core, log, and lab data for robust formation evaluation
✅ Apply advanced methods for shaly sands and low-resistivity reservoirs
✅ Analyze capillary pressure and saturation height models
✅ Perform advanced log interpretation with multi-mineral analysis
✅ Evaluate thin-bed effects and overcome interpretation pitfalls

👥 Who Should Attend

Senior petrophysicists
Reservoir and exploration geologists
Reservoir engineers
Technical managers
Anyone involved in reservoir evaluation of sandstone plays

🗂️ Training Format

✅ Lectures with examples from sandstone reservoirs worldwide
✅ Core-log integration workshops
✅ Exercises using real well data
✅ Advanced log interpretation software demonstrations (optional)
✅ Interactive discussions and knowledge sharing

📅 Day-by-Day Agenda with Time Breaks

📅 Day 1: Sandstone Reservoir Fundamentals

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome, Introductions & Course Overview
09:00 – 10:30	Classification of Sandstone Reservoirs
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Diagenesis and Its Effect on Reservoir Quality
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Pore Systems in Clastic Reservoirs
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Depositional Environment & Petrophysical Signatures

📅 Day 2: Core Analysis & Integration

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Core Sampling & Description Techniques
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Porosity & Permeability Measurements
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Capillary Pressure: Theory & Interpretation
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Integrating Core & Log Data for Improved Evaluation

📅 Day 3: Advanced Log Interpretation

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Shaly Sand Evaluation Methods
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Low-Resistivity Pay Identification
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Multi-Mineral & Spectral Gamma-Ray Analysis
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Practical Exercises on Advanced Log Analysis

📅 Day 4: Capillary Pressure & Saturation Modeling

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Capillary Pressure Curves & Interpretation
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Saturation Height Functions & Free Water Levels
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Rock Typing Based on Petrophysical Data
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Case Study: Field Application of Saturation Modeling

📅 Day 5: Advanced Topics & Integration Workshop

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Thin-Bed Analysis & High-Resolution Logs
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Uncertainty Analysis in Formation Evaluation
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Integrated Formation Evaluation Workflow
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Review, Group Presentation, & Certificate Ceremony

📦 Materials Provided

✅ Comprehensive course manual
✅ Core-log integration worksheets
✅ Advanced log interpretation exercises
✅ Case study datasets
✅ Certificate of Completion

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,700

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