Advanced Petrophysics
Level: Advance
Upcoming Sessions:
To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructors: Dr. Djebbar Tiab
Designed for:
Petroleum Engineers and other technically trained individuals who desires a
more in-depth foundation in petrophysics.
Course Overview:
Petrophysics is a fundamental part of petroleum engineering. It affects all aspects of the
petroleum business. Principles, applications, and integration of petrophysical information for reservoir
description will be discussed in-depth through a combination of class discussion and exercises.
Participants will obtain a solid understanding of the more advanced petrophysical offerings such as core-log
integration & permeability-porosity models, evaluation of heterogeneous reservoirs, reservoir zoning & flow units,
characterizing naturally fractured carbonate formations, and integrating well test data in reservoir characterization.
Course Content:
- Core-Log Integration & Permeability-Porosity Models
- Core Analysis: Coring, Core Alteration & Handling (Video)
- Porosity
- Permeability
- Wettability & Interfacial Tension
- Capillary Pressure & Water Saturation
- Fundamental permeability - porosity model
- Leverett J-Function
- Permeability-Porosity: GR-Density Log Model
- Statistical Permeability-Porosity Models
- Permeability-Porosity Model for Unconsolidated Sands
- Permeability Anisotropy Models
- NMR Measurements
- Effect of Stress on Porosity, Permeability and Resistivity
- Permeability-Porosity-Stress Relationships
- Porosity as Strength Indicator to Evaluate Sand Production.
- Exercises (12)
- Petrophysical Evaluation of Heterogeneous Reservoirs
- Wireline Logs
- Formation Resistivity Factor
- Formation Resistivity Correlations
- Water Saturation in Shaly Formations
- Water Saturation from Density Logs
- Advances in Evaluation of Shaly Reservoirs
- Directional Permeability From Layered-Resistivity Models
- Vertical Permeability in Clayey Formations
- Exercises (10)
- Reservoir Zoning & Flow Units
- Reservoir Environments & their Characteristics (VIDEO)
- Identification & Characterization of Flow Units in Clean Formations
- Flow units in clean sands, flow zone index
- Reservoir characterization by the J-function
- Identification & Characterization of Flow Units in Shaly Formations
- Log-derived evaluation of shaly sands
- Flow units in shaly formations, shale zone index
- Permeability Averaging Techniques
- Porosity Averaging Techniques
- Exercises (12)
- Characterizing Naturally Fractured Carbonate Formations
- Evaluation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (Video)
- Indicators of Natural Fractures, Visual Identification of Fractures
- Fracture Porosity Determination
- Porosity Partitioning Coefficient, Fracture Intensity Index
- Permeability-Porosity Relationships
- Fracture Porosity and Aperture from Cores
- Fracture Area, Fracture Storage Capacity, Fracture Conductivity
- Cementation Factor in Carbonate Reservoirs
- NMR Response Characteristics in Carbonates
- Petrophysical Characteristics for Use in Dual-Porosity Simulators
- Reservoir Quality Index for Fractured Systems
- Fracture Porosity from Pressure Transient Tests
- Exercises (15)
- Integrating Well Test Data in Reservoir Characterization
- Fundamentals of Well Testing (VIDEO)
- Vertical Well Test Data
- Horizontal Well Test Data
- Basics of Data Integration
- Mechanics of Data Integration
- Numerical and Practical Issues in the integration
- Exercises & Field Examples