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SEMINAR OUTLINE:  ANALYZING ANCIENT LOGS

"50 Years Of Continuous Petrophysical Experience, At Your Service"

 

COURSE SUMMARY
This semi-quantitative course covers topics needed to calculate shale volume, porosity, water saturation, and permeability from older (pre 1968) open and cased hole well logs. Integration and calibration to modern logs, cores, tests, and production data are stressed.

The best place to find By-Passed Pay is on older logs - find out how to do it here.

Includes Russian Style Logs, still being run today in many parts of the Former Soviet Union - essential for any operator planning or evaluating joint venture projects in this part of the world.

  • Basic tool theory – ES logs (64"/16" normal), laterologs, induction, SP, micrologs, sonic, density, neutron, GR.  

  • Focusing, or lack of it, on older log suites. 

  • Common displays of older logs and how to identify each curve.

  • How to read older logs (e.g. bed boundaries, which log curve is best to use).

  • How do the older measurements compare to current measurements, how have these measurements evolved over time – direct comparisons.

  • How much information can be read from older logs (porosity, perm. hydrocarbon  indicators, bypassed pay),

  • Limitations, common pitfalls of older logs (borehole condition. mud system, invasion, mud cake effects).

  • Quality control and troubleshooting on older logs.

  • “Rule of Thumb” analysis techniques to help identify hydrocarbons – carbonates and clastics..

  • Using core data, local knowledge, modern logs in offset wells to calibrate results.


COURSE DURATION
1 day - 8 Professional Development Hours (PDH)


COURSE LEVEL
Beginner to Intermediate, calculator required.

REFERENCE MANUAL
Course manuals are included in course fee, or can be ordered separately.
RF-03: "Crain's Analyzing Ancient Logs", 84 pages 

RF-04: "Crain's Logging Tool Theory", 91 pages     

AUDIO VISUAL SLIDE SHOW
AV-02: "Crain's Integrated Petrophysics - Advanced Topics" Audio Visual Narrated Slide Show on CD-ROM, for self study, can be ordered separately,  
Unlimited Worldwide Multi-Student Corporate Licenses also available.

BENEFITS:

  • understand what older logs really measured
    understand uses and limitations of older logs
    understand the rock/fluid model for log analysis

  • provides step-by-step procedures for analysis of older logs

  • provides "computer ready" mathematics

  • gives insight into rock quality versus well performance

  • answer oriented results, with quality control guidelines

  • client specific examples can be added

  • permanent reference material

SEMINAR OUTLINE:

1 Ancient Logging Tools
      Electrical Survey
      Spontaneous Potential
       Induction Logs
       Laterologs
       Micro Resistivity Logs
       Sonic Logs
        Density Logs
        Neutron Logs
        Gamma Ray Logs
        Modern Resistivity Inversion Software

2 Shale Volume
3 Pore Volume
4 Porosity From The Neutron Log
5 Porosity from ES and Micrologs
6 Maximum Porosity Method
 
7 Water Resistivity From Catalog or DST Recovery
8 Water Resistivity From Water Zone (R0 Method)
9 Water Resistivity From Spontaneous Potential
10 Water Saturation from Archie Method
11 Water Saturation from Simandoux Method
12 Water Saturation from Dual Water Method
13 Water Saturation From Buckles Number
14 Water Saturation and Porosity from Ratio Method
15 Irreducible Water Saturation
16 Permeability and Productivity
17 Permeability From Wyllie-Rose Method
18 Permeability From Porosity
19 Calibrating to Modern Logs and Core Data
20 Case Histories

ADDED Feature: Analyzing Russian Style Logs
 

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