🏆 Integrated Formation Evaluation in Clastic & Carbonate Reservoirs
🌟 Course Description This advanced course equips geoscientists and engineers with the skills to perform integrated formation evaluation in both clastic and carbonate reservoirs. Participants will learn to combine core analysis, wireline logs, petrophysical interpretations, and advanced techniques such as …
Overview
🌟 Course Description
This advanced course equips geoscientists and engineers with the skills to perform integrated formation evaluation in both clastic and carbonate reservoirs. Participants will learn to combine core analysis, wireline logs, petrophysical interpretations, and advanced techniques such as image logs and saturation height modeling to optimize reservoir characterization and reduce uncertainty in reserves estimation.
🎯 Learning Objectives
✅ Understand geological controls on reservoir properties in clastic and carbonate systems
✅ Interpret basic and advanced well logs with calibration from core data
✅ Evaluate porosity, permeability, and saturation in heterogeneous lithologies
✅ Integrate image log analysis for fracture identification
✅ Apply saturation height models and capillary pressure concepts
✅ Build integrated formation evaluation workflows for reservoir modeling
👥 Who Should Attend
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Petrophysicists and log analysts
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Reservoir and production engineers
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Geologists and geoscientists
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Reservoir modelers and asset team members
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Technical staff involved in reserves estimation
🗂️ Training Format
✅ Presentations with real data examples
✅ Hands-on interpretation exercises
✅ Core-log integration workshops
✅ Group discussions and case studies
✅ Daily quizzes to reinforce concepts
📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks
📅 Day 1: Geological Framework & Fundamentals of Petrophysics
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration & Introduction |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Clastic & Carbonate Reservoir Geology Basics |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Rock Types, Textures, and Diagenesis |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Overview of Wireline Logging Tools and Measurements |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Key Petrophysical Concepts: Porosity, Permeability, Saturation |
📅 Day 2: Conventional Log Interpretation & Core Integration
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Gamma Ray, Resistivity, Density, and Neutron Logs |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Core Acquisition and Analysis Techniques |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Calibration of Logs with Core Data |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Workshop: Porosity and Lithology Interpretation |
📅 Day 3: Advanced Log Analysis & Image Logs
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Logs in Clastics & Carbonates |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Dipmeter and Borehole Image Log Interpretation |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Fracture Identification and Quantification in Image Logs |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Workshop: Integrating Image Logs in Reservoir Evaluation |
📅 Day 4: Capillary Pressure, Saturation Height Modeling & Shaly Sands
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Capillary Pressure Measurements and Interpretation |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Saturation Height Functions and Leverett J-Function |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Shaly Sand Analysis Techniques |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Workshop: Water Saturation Calculation in Complex Lithologies |
📅 Day 5: Integrated Workflows & Case Studies
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Building Integrated Formation Evaluation Models |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Using Formation Evaluation in Reservoir Simulation |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Real-World Case Studies: Clastic and Carbonate Fields |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Final Workshop, Summary, Q&A, and Certificates |
📦 Materials Provided
✅ Course manual with worked examples
✅ Core-log integration templates
✅ Saturation modeling spreadsheets
✅ Case study reports
✅ Certificate of Completion
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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