Core and Log Integration for Reservoir Characterization

Overview

📘 Course Description

This course is designed to provide geoscientists, petrophysicists, and reservoir engineers with an in-depth understanding of how to integrate core and well log data for improved reservoir characterization. Participants will learn the fundamentals and techniques of core analysis, log interpretation, and how to align the two data sets for robust reservoir description, facies modeling, and property prediction. The course blends theory, best practices, and hands-on exercises using real datasets.

🗓️ Day 1: Introduction to Core and Well Log Data

Time	Topic
08:30 – 09:00	Welcome, Course Objectives, Participant Introductions
09:00 – 10:30	Introduction to Reservoir Characterization – Role of Core and Logs
10:30 – 10:45	☕ Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15	Types of Core Data – Routine Core Analysis (RCAL), Special Core Analysis (SCAL)
12:15 – 01:15	🍽️ Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Well Log Fundamentals – Gamma Ray, Resistivity, Density, Neutron, Sonic
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Exercise: Core Description & Depth Matching with Logs

🗓️ Day 2: Core Description, Calibration & Rock Typing

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Detailed Core Description Techniques – Lithofacies, Textures, Sedimentary Structures
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Core-Log Depth Shift & Calibration – Aligning Core and Wireline Data
12:15 – 01:15	🍽️ Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Rock Typing Approaches – Geological vs Petrophysical Rock Types
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Workshop: Core-to-Log Rock Type Matching (Lucia & Flow Zone Indicators)

🗓️ Day 3: Petrophysical Evaluation & Core-Log Relationships

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Porosity & Permeability from Core and Logs – Comparison, Correlation, Trends
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Water Saturation & Capillary Pressure – SCAL Integration with Logs
12:15 – 01:15	🍽️ Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	NMR Logs, SCAL & Pore Systems – Vuggy, Intergranular, Microporosity
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Exercise: Correlating Core Porosity/Perm with Logs (Crossplots & Regression)

🗓️ Day 4: Integrated Reservoir Characterization Workflow

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Workflow for Core-Log Integration – From Raw Data to Reservoir Models
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Identifying Electrofacies – Multi-Log Cluster Analysis (K-means, SOM intro)
12:15 – 01:15	🍽️ Lunch Break
01:15 – 02:45	Creating Petrophysical Rock Types for Static Models
02:45 – 03:00	☕ Coffee Break
03:00 – 04:30	Case Study Workshop: Integrating Core, Logs, SCAL into a Layered Model

🗓️ Day 5: Application, Uncertainty & Group Presentation

Time	Topic
08:30 – 10:00	Uncertainty in Core and Log Data – Calibration, Sampling Bias, Tool Limitations
10:00 – 10:15	☕ Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15	Field Case Study: Core-Log Integration in Clastic or Carbonate Field
12:15 – 01:15	🍽️ Lunch Break
01:15 – 03:00	Group Exercise: Build & Present an Integrated Core-Log Interpretation
03:00 – 03:15	☕ Coffee Break
03:15 – 04:30	Group Presentations, Discussion, Course Wrap-up & Certificate Ceremony

✅ Course Deliverables:

PDF slides and course notes
Excel files for cross-plotting and correlation
Core images and log datasets for exercises
Field examples from sandstone and carbonate reservoirs

Target audiences

Reservoir Engineers, Geologists

$ 5,500

Course Features