Focused on unconventional tight gas formations, this course teaches formation evaluation workflows for low-permeability reservoirs, emphasizing advanced logs (NMR, FMI), pressure data, and integrating petrophysics with production behavior.
🗓️ Day 1: Fundamentals of Tight Reservoirs
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 09:00 |
Course introduction & tight gas reservoir basics |
| 09:00 – 10:30 |
Definition of tight gas vs. conventional reservoirs |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 |
Rock types and pore throat sizes |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Importance of natural fractures |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Case study overview: tight gas field examples |
🗓️ Day 2: Logging Challenges
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Tool resolution limits in tight formations |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
NMR logs for porosity and permeability |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Borehole image logs for fracture evaluation |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Exercise: NMR data interpretation |
🗓️ Day 3: Gas Saturation Estimation
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Sw calculation in tight sands |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Capillary pressure challenges |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Pressure data integration: MDT, RFT |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Exercise: Sw estimation in low-perm rock |
🗓️ Day 4: Petrophysical Modelling
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Petrophysical models for tight gas |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Effective vs. absolute porosity and permeability |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Core-log integration for tight reservoirs |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Exercise: net reservoir identification |
🗓️ Day 5: Integration & Case Studies
| Time |
Topic |
| 08:30 – 10:00 |
Tight gas formation evaluation workflow |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 |
Field case study: integrated interpretation |
| 12:15 – 13:15 |
🍽 Lunch Break |
| 13:15 – 14:45 |
Group presentations of results |
| 14:45 – 15:00 |
☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 |
Review, Q&A, and wrap-up |