🧪 Applied Core Analysis – How to Interpret Core Data: Unlocking the Reservoir’s Secrets

Overview

🔎 Course Description

This intensive course takes participants through the full workflow of core analysis, focusing on the integration and interpretation of core-derived data to improve reservoir characterization. Attendees will gain practical insights into core acquisition, laboratory measurements, quality control, and how to translate core data into meaningful reservoir properties such as porosity, permeability, saturation, and mechanical properties for geomechanics.

🎯 Learning Objectives

✅ Understand core acquisition, handling, and preservation best practices
✅ Interpret conventional and special core analysis (SCAL) measurements
✅ Integrate core data with log and petrophysical interpretations
✅ Assess uncertainties and quality issues in core analysis
✅ Apply core-derived data in static and dynamic reservoir models

👥 Who Should Attend

Reservoir engineers
Petrophysicists
Geologists and geoscientists
Core analysts and lab personnel
Technical managers overseeing reservoir studies

🗂️ Training Format

✅ Lectures by experienced core analysis professionals
✅ Practical exercises interpreting real core datasets
✅ Case studies from clastic and carbonate reservoirs
✅ Interactive discussions on core-log integration challenges
✅ Daily quizzes to reinforce key concepts

📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks

📅 Day 1: Introduction to Core Analysis and Acquisition

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Registration, Welcome, and Course Overview
09:00 – 10:30	Objectives and Importance of Core Analysis
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Core Acquisition: Planning and Cutting Techniques
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Core Handling, Preservation, and Transportation
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Core Description and Photography

📅 Day 2: Routine Core Analysis (RCAL)

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Measurements of Porosity and Grain Density
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Permeability Measurements and Influencing Factors
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Core Plug Preparation, Cleaning, and Drying
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Exercise: RCAL Data Interpretation

📅 Day 3: Special Core Analysis (SCAL)

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Capillary Pressure and Mercury Injection
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Relative Permeability Measurements
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Electrical Properties: Resistivity Index & Formation Factor
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Wettability Determination and Interpretation

📅 Day 4: Advanced Applications and Integration

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Mechanical Properties: Geomechanics from Core Data
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Core-Log Integration: Matching Core and Wireline Data
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Scaling Core Data to Reservoir Models
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Case Study: Core Data in Carbonate Reservoirs

📅 Day 5: Quality Control, Uncertainty, and Practical Exercises

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Quality Control: Core Analysis Challenges
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Assessing and Managing Uncertainties in Core Data
12:15 – 13:15	🍽 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45	Group Exercise: Interpreting a Complete Core Dataset
14:45 – 15:00	☕ Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30	Course Review, Open Q&A, and Certificate Ceremony

📦 Materials Provided

✅ Comprehensive course manual
✅ Real-world core data examples for hands-on interpretation
✅ Core analysis workflow charts
✅ Certificate of Completion

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,950

Course Features