Day-1: Basic Formation Evaluation

• What is the formation evaluation and why?
• Mud logging.
• Coring process, core preservation and preparation.
• Traditional and special core analysis.
• Principles and applications of bore hole logging.

• Natural phenomena.
• Physical properties measured by inducing responses from the formation.
• Borehole effects and invasion.
• The effect of tool geometry.
• The effect of logging speed.
• The effect of hostile environments.
• Logging equipment-surface and downhole.
• The logging tool.
• Tool combinations.

Day-2: Open bore hole logging

• Principles and applications.
• Electric Logs.

• SP logs.
• Resistivity Logs.
• Induction Logs.

• Nuclear Logs.

• Gamma ray Logs.

• Formation density Logs.
• Neutron Logs.
• Sonic Logs.
• LWD & MWD.
• RFT & MDT.

Day-3: Petrophysical Properties from Well Logs

• Quick Look interpretation.
• Shale volume.
• Porosity determination.
• Saturation parameters, a, m & n.
• Cross-plots.
• Core analysis and Log data integration.
• Integrating the core and log data sets.
• Case Study.

Day-4: Porosity and Permeability of Rocks:

• Coring and Sample Preparation for Petrophysical measurements.
• Porosity and the Different Classifications of Pore spaces.
• Factors governing Porosity values.
• Measuring Porosity and density.
• Permeability and classification of Permeability.
• Factors affecting the magnitude of permeability values.
• Measuring Permeability; specific and relative Permeability.
• Porosity-Permeability cross-plots.
• Irreducible water saturation ‘Swirr’.
• Apparent and true electric resistivity.
• Formation resistivity factor.
• Factors controlling the electric properties.
• How to calculate ‘a’, ‘m’ (constant and variable ‘m’) and ‘n’.

Day-5: Reservoir Drive Mechanisms

• Classification and origin of rocks
• Reserve estimation and uncertainty.
• Proved and unproved reserves.
• Reservoir drive mechanisms.