Introduction
Petrophysics is central to the integration of a wide spectrum of related geoscience and engineering disciplines. However, students should also be familiar with at least two or more of the following topics: horizontal well drilling, wireline logging and log analysis, coring and core analysis, petrophysics, geophysics, geochemistry, formation testing, rock mechanics, hydraulic fracturing, and petroleum economics.
Goals
Participants will learn:
- Interpret petrophysical data gathering from unconventional reservoirs from both core and log data.
- Assess TOC and maturity indicators.
- Evaluate measurement provided by service companies.
- Gauge gas-in-place and reserves in unconventional reservoirs.
- Recognize consequences and magnitudes of shale anisotropy.
- Interpret NMR and capillary pressure measurements made on shale.
- Interpret microstructural imaging of shale.
Target Groups
Geoscientists involved with the evaluation and exploitation of unconventional reservoirs including tight gas sands, shale gas, and coal-bed methane.
Program Content
- Overview of unconventional reservoirs.
- Geochemistry of unconventional rocks.
- Special coring and core analysis techniques for unconventionals.
- Wireline logging of unconventional reservoirs.
- Assessment of formation organic content (TOC) and maturity.
- Gas-in-place and reserve and flow potential estimates.
- Geomechanics and fracturing.
