PETROPHYSICAL COURSEWARE: We offer in-house and open-session courses and seminars, based on a practical, no-nonsense, problem solving style. We run fall and spring open sessions in Calgary. We have taught many foreign students in Canada and overseas, including numerous sessions given through a translator. Regular clients include BJ Services, Schlumberger (through University of Tulsa Continuing Education), University of Calgary, numerous Canadian-based oil and gas companies, consultants, and government agencies.

Courses are based on “Crain's Petrophysical Handbook - 3rd Millennium Edition”, which is on-line at our Interactive Learning Center. You can order the CD-ROM version of the Handbook HERE.

Each seminar is supported by a high quality reference manual and exercises, coupled with vivid PowerPoint presentations, backed by 45+ years of practical, worldwide experience.

Our seminars are not designed to sell logging tools. We offer integrated solutions to today's analysis problems. Our answer oriented approach, instead of the usual tool orientation, gives students a much better insight into how to evaluate data, both old and new. Our step-by-step procedures will help find a rational solution with minimum effort and minimum chance for error.

Session ONE: PRACTICAL QUANTITATIVE LOG ANALYSIS
Integrated Petrophysics - Logs, Cores, Tests, Productivity
3 Days Domestic 5 Days Overseas

Session TWO: ANALYSIS OF OLDER LOG SUITES
Integrating Older Logs with Modern Well Data
1 Day Domestic 2 Days Overseas (Add-On to Session One)

Session THREE: LOGGING TOOL THEORY AND DATA ACQUISITION
New Hire Primer or Add Depth to Basic Skills
1 Day Domestic 2 Days Overseas

Session FOUR: CEMENT INTEGRITY LOGGING
New Hire Primer or Add Depth to Basic Skills
1 Day Domestic 2 Days Overseas

Session FIVE: ROCK MECHANICS and ELASTIC PROPERTIES
Elastic Properties for Hydraulic Fracture Design, Seismic Applications, or Fractured Reservoirs
1 Day Domestic 2 Days Overseas

Session SIX: GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF LOGS
Dipmeter and Imaging Tools, Calculations, and Presentations, Structure, Stratigraphy,
1 or 2 Days Domestic 3 Days Overseas

Session SEVEN: FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of Fractured Reservoirs
1 Day Domestic 2 Days Overseas

Session EIGHT: SEISMIC PETROPHYSICS
Integrating Borehole and Seismic Petrophysics, Editing / Modeling Logs, Seismic Modeling, Inversion, VSP, and AVO
1 Day Domestic 2 Days Overseas

IN-HOUSE COURSE FEES: We offer reasonable cost alternatives to most In-house course providers, coupled with professional, permanent course reference manuals, and 45+ years of worldwide experience to back it up. Compare prices, instructor's practical experience, and quality of course materials, then make your choice.

Fees are for instruction only for a maximum of 15 students. Extra students can be accommodated at extra cost if classroom permits. Client will reproduce course manual. Accommodation and airfare for two persons to be arranged and paid for by client. Meals and incidental expenses invoiced separately. Add 5% GST if delivered in Canada.