Course Description

This course designed with some experience with reading logs is an advantage, this course is ideal for anyone who has no prior knowledge or experience, especially newcomers to the oil industry. you will gain all the confidence you need to understand and interpret all the basic open-hole logs.

Course Objectives

·         Understanding and  recognize all the basic logs

·         Know what they are measuring 

·         Learning how to read them, recognize all the common rock types

·         Identify hydrocarbon zones, calculate porosity and water saturations

·         Have confidence in your choice of interpretation parameters.

Who Should Attend?

·         Geologists

·         Geophysicists

·         Petroleum Engineers

·         Petrophysicists

·         Technicians - even Managers, if they are exposed to (or use) open-hole logs in their daily work.

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         How to identify reservoir rocks

·         Invasion profile

·         Why the SP is important

·         How to use  SP

DAY 2

·         Identifying hydrocarbon zones from resistivity logs

·         How the basic logging tools work

·         Whatthe basic logging tools measure

DAY 3

·         The common rock types

·         How to identify the common rock 

·         How to use gamma rays, spectral gamma-rays

·         The Photoelectric effect

DAY 4

·         What porosity is

·         How the different kinds of porosity are measured

·         Archie´s equation - where it comes from, what it means

·         How to use it to calculate water saturation

DAY 5

·         How to handle shaley zones

·         Quick-look and reconnaissance interpretation methods

·         Cross-plot techniques, and some useful short-cuts