Overview
Public face to face and online courses 5 days. In-house courses may be amalgamated with other courses and delivered as 3 to 5 day courses however this should be done with caution.
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This course presents the complete Carbonate & Fracture Evaluation Recipe for carbonate petrophysical characterization, from Quick Look log analysis to full Core-Log-Test integration. The course presents a systematic plan of action for Carbonate Petrophysics, from data acquisition to core, log and well test integration, highlighting the problems and explaining the solutions. All data is ranked and logically slotted into the workflow, from drilling and LWD to the latest hi-tech logs and well tests. This comprehensive recipe provides a definitive set of results and a secure basis for decisions in the management of any carbonate or complex reservoir. The course explains how the physical characteristics of Carbonates – tight, fractured, vuggy or permeable – present log analysis Failure Points. How to delineate Rock Types and drill, core, log and test specifically to address these failure points is explained via a condensed learning session of interleaved theory, PetroDB-WEB demos, workshops and instructional videos. Drilling data, core, SCAL, logs, Image-logs, Pulsar, LithoScanner, NMR, Array sonics, Dielectric, Sigma, and MDTs are all briefly explained and carefully fitted together to form the definitive solution for any given data set. The course’s powerful Excel Carbonate Petrophysics Toolbox includes all Workshops, the step-by-step derivation of a SCAL Saturation Height modified J Function plus the BVW FOIL Function and how to apply them with log driven equations, as well as a vuggy Carbonates QL LAS evaluation sheet, 100+ Eqns, PetroDB-WEB extracts, QL Sigma, HPV Sensitivities and calculators for Fracture Probability and Fracture Ø & HPV!
This course, distilled from 35 years consulting, provides the much needed systematic process for staff faced with the daunting prospect of managing Carbonate or other complex reservoirs. Non-petrophysicists will learn how to quickly review geo-model input using the author’s “Greenlists”.
This process has been adopted and used successfully by numerous operators, large and small.
IPCFR – The complete recipe for Carbonate & Fractured reservoirs!
Who Should Attend?
Petrophysicists. Geologists, Operations Geologists, Structural Geologists, Geo-modellers, Reservoir Engineers, Well Test Engineers or Core Analysts who use or create petrophysical results for carbonate or “complex” reservoirs. Basic principles are reviewed; however a year’s experience in formation evaluation is desirable. Bring your laptop with MS Excel.
Course Outline
- – How Physical Characteristics impact 1) Reservoir properties 2) Reservoir measurements
- – Carbonate & Fracture Reservoir classifications: Lucia, Nelson, Aguilera
- – Total porosity + Clays vs Total porosity + Pore geometry. What to do!
- – How to use data and equations intelligently. Understanding Data Redundancy, Hierarchy and Equation Inversion
- – Misleading Data, Useful Data, Powerful Data. The Carbonate & Fracture database essentials
- – Petrophysical Greenlists: The tests you must apply to received data sets
- – Carbonate Quick Look Excel template with 100+ key equations for complex reservoir evaluation
- – Reservoir Rock Types, PetroDB, Analogues, Sigma & Dielectric logs, Cap. Pressure, FZI, R35, Rock Typing, Core Sw, Which Sw? NMR porosity bins, Timur-Coates carbonate permeability, Sonic logs, Stoneley permeability, Stress, Fracture Quantification
- – The Complete Carbonate & Fracture Evaluation Recipe: Principles, Data and A-Z Information Flow
- – The Petrophysics to Geo-model checks which really matter! Is your permeability relevant?
- – 5 days of petrophysical saturation: Morning Recaps: Do This, Don’t Do That! PetroDB-Vault interactive demos; Micro-practicals; Movies; Workshops; 25+ years’ experience and debate
Instructor
Mark Deakin is a technical consultant, author and course instructor in Petrophysical Data Integration. He holds a Ph.D. in ‘Integrated Petrophysics’ from London’s Imperial College, is an ex Amoco petrophysicist and has over 30 years’ experience including as a course instructor with PetroSkills and HOT Engineering. He has performed over 70 detailed reservoir studies worldwide; primarily in Southeast Asia’s low-contrast pay and carbonate reservoirs. Deakin’s proven approach is to identify and rank reserves uncertainties for operators and investors, then guide operators towards defensible booked reserves via the application of new technology, targeted data acquisition and the systematic, logical integration of all related data. After his PhD Deakin authored the first public Integrated Petrophysics course in 1989 which evolved into IPRC, the industry’s benchmark petrophysics training course. This was followed by courses on Carbonate & Fracture Petrophysics IPCFR and focused modules on Quick Look Techniques IPQL, Using Modern Logs with SCAL IPSCAL, Low Resistivity Pay IPLAM, Saturation Height IPSWHT, Using PetroDB Effectively IPPetroDB and Renewable Energy REP.
Deakin’s core interest is the integration of diverse technologies to solve problems. Integration of the uniquely powerful PetroDB, cross-linked core-log-test database, with mainstream software is his current project. Deakin is an active member of SPWLA and occasional lecturer at Edit Cowan & Curtin University. His consulting company PETROPHYSICS Pty Ltd has offices in Perth, Australia and he has homes in Perth and London.
PS: This course for Benchmark Petrophysics training
Who Will Attend
Petrophysicists, geologists, operations geologists, geo-modellers, reservoir engineers, geophysicists, core analysts or anyone with a year’s experience with logs or formation evaluation. Bring your laptop with MS Excel.