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Quick Look Petrophysics - Course Contents

 

Three Day Training Course

 

Course includes manual, PPL_quick-look.xls, charts, equations, check lists, abbreviations, worked examples and course slides.

 

Day1

What makes a reservoir rock?

Mudlogs:  Cuttings, total gas, chromatograph, cut & fluorescence

Micropractical: Locate reservoir on mudlog

 

LWD and Conventional logs: GR, Caliper, Resistivity, Density, Neutron, Sonic, SP, NMR:

- Basic operating principles, resolution

- LWD problems and differences with wireline

- Typical log plots of non-reservoir, reservoir and pay

- Key qualitative features of logs in reservoir and pay

 

Log summary table: tool, principle, curves,  function

Practical.  For each tool: Test on operating principles.  Role in identifying reservoir.

 

Qualitative Quick Look

- GR and shaliness, DN crossover and reservoir quality

- Resistivity in water and HC zones

- Resistivity porosity trends in water vs. HC zones

- Invasion profiles

- How shaliness obscures reservoirs

 

Practical.  Identify reservoir rock from conventional logs using visual clues

Distinguish pay from reservoir rock using visual clues

List characteristics which are 1) present and 2) absent on mudlogs for

a) reservoir

b) pay

 

Day2

Recap, Course Progression, What's next, Questions

Quantitative Quick Look Using Charts

Identification of Reservoir rock and Pay with Explanation

GR logs and vshale

Using density-neutron crossplot for porosity and shaliness

Practical.  As above

 

Chart Gen-9 for Rw

Why water zones are useful

Pickett plots for aRw and m to define the water saturated condition

Chart Sw-1 for Sw

Practical.  As above

 

Chart K-4 for permeability

Do mudlogs support our findings?

Practical.  As above

 

Problems

Common problems, how to recognize them and what to do:

Badhole, Non GR fines and GR non-fines, Low porosity reservoirs with mineral variations and diagenesis, Shaly gas zones, Lack of water samples or water zones (Rw variations), Is Chart K-4 applicable?

 

Recap:  volumetric inputs:  porosity, saturation, pay thickness and permeability

 

Common Geological Features:  Their Appearance on Conventional Logs and Mudlogs

- Shaliness

- Fining sequences

 -Thin beds

- Bioturbated and convoluted beds

- Cementation

- Authigenic clays

- Carbonates

- Volcanics

- Conglomerates

- Faults

- Solid hydrocarbons

- Rw variations

- Over pressure

 

Day3

Recap, Course Progression, What's next, Questions

Wireline Formation Testers (WFTs)

Quick operating principles

Pressure tvdss plots: fluid type; contacts; reservoir separation

Distinguishing good and bad pressure data

How to acquire good pressure data

 

Practical.  Distinguish good and pressure bad data

Plot and identify fluid type and contacts

Add a second well

Your conclusions about this well are?

 

WFTs contd.

Reservoir samples and permeability (movie)

Compare and contrast WFTs and Well Tests (DSTs)

Practical.  Locate pressure and sampling points on log

Distinguish good and bad reservoir fluid samples

 

The Petrophysics Pty Ltd Quick Look Log Analysis spreadsheet

- GR vshale,

- Density porosity,

- Density-neutron porosity,

- Rwa,

- The Archie equation,

- Coates Permeability (tvdss defaults),

- Netpay and Netrock Cut-offs

 

Recap

Key Equations List

Practical.  Calculations from log plots as above.  One well vs. a second well

 

Optional InHouse

Student Directed, Instructor performed Quick Log Analysis using Geolog Key Well (or client supplied key well)

 

Quality Control

Do vertical trends of shaliness, porosity and bulk volume water make sense?

Do mudlogs and well tests make sense?

 

Common Problems

When to be cautious with logs and how to avoid the common pitfalls

Practical.  Identification of log problems. What to do

 

Check list for Petrophysical Results before their use in reserves or reservoir simulation

 

Extras

LWD: Summary of differences with wireline logs. What to watch for

Special Logs: Output and role in The Big Picture, More on NMR Logs (movie), Image Logs (movie), Sonic Logs (movie)

 

Practical.  Quicklook evaluation mudlogs, vshale, porosity, Rw, Sw WFT contacts

 

Summary of Associated Topics. This Course and The Big Picture

- Routine Core Analysis,

- Special Core Analysis,

- Capillary pressure,

- Electrical properties,

- Relative permeability,

- Saturation-height modeling,

- Seismic Petrophysics,

- Facies Identification,

- Geological Modeling

 

Glossary Curve and Tool Abbreviations

 

Course Recap

How to relax and feel confident and what key words/sentences you must say when friends and colleagues start talking "Logs" and "Petrophysics" at the water cooler, or even at the bar on Friday night.

 

Lets face it, you just can't miss this one!

 

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