Well Log Interpretation - WLI

Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; The petroleum reservoir; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling technology; Well completion and workover; Production operations; Recovery; Surface processing; Offshore operations

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Review of turbidite settings, processes, models; Turbidite systems at outcrop; Rock analogs for the subsurface (including injected sands); Modern deep-water systems; Alternative reservoir geometrics; Seismic character of deep-water systems; Borehole/wireline characteristics; Significance and use of various tools; Correlation of reservoir units; Predictive models for sand distribution; Critical data input to reserve models; Definition of pay

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Bitumen and Heavy Oil Definitions and Introduction; Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Oil Sands In-situ Project Review; Introduction of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Environmental Challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela; Introduction of United States Heavy Oil Occurrences (Utah, California and Texas)

Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; The petroleum reservoir; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling technology; Well completion and workover; Production operations; Recovery; Surface processing; Offshore operations

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Review of turbidite settings, processes, models; Turbidite systems at outcrop; Rock analogs for the subsurface (including injected sands); Modern deep-water systems; Alternative reservoir geometrics; Seismic character of deep-water systems; Borehole/wireline characteristics; Significance and use of various tools; Correlation of reservoir units; Predictive models for sand distribution; Critical data input to reserve models; Definition of pay

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Bitumen and Heavy Oil Definitions and Introduction; Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Oil Sands In-situ Project Review; Introduction of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Environmental Challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela; Introduction of United States Heavy Oil Occurrences (Utah, California and Texas)

Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; The petroleum reservoir; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling technology; Well completion and workover; Production operations; Recovery; Surface processing; Offshore operations

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Review of turbidite settings, processes, models; Turbidite systems at outcrop; Rock analogs for the subsurface (including injected sands); Modern deep-water systems; Alternative reservoir geometrics; Seismic character of deep-water systems; Borehole/wireline characteristics; Significance and use of various tools; Correlation of reservoir units; Predictive models for sand distribution; Critical data input to reserve models; Definition of pay

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Bitumen and Heavy Oil Definitions and Introduction; Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Oil Sands In-situ Project Review; Introduction of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Environmental Challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela; Introduction of United States Heavy Oil Occurrences (Utah, California and Texas)

Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Water-hydrocarbon equilibrium; Basic thermodynamic concepts; Separation equipment; Heat transfer; Pumps; Compressors; Refrigeration; Fractionation/distillation; Glycol dehydration; Adsorption systems

Introduction: Review of philosophy and epistemology; Application of geophysical fundamentals (wave theory, attributes, frequency substitution, and coherency); Amplitude variation with offset (lithologies, fluids, gases, porosities, and pressures); Fault mechanical stratigraphy; Vail and Galloway sequence theory and application; High resolution sea level curve generation from micropaleo; Shallow and deep water siliciclastic sequences; Seismic facies and paleo-environmental analysis; Reservoir scale geophysics using the wavelet; Imaging hydrocarbons; Geohistory reconstruction; Optimizing exploration and development

Forecasting oil production; Defining: "reserves", operating expenses, capital expenditures, inflation, factors effecting oil and gas prices; Cash flow techniques; Economic criteria: interest, hurdle rate, time value of money, selection, ranking criteria; Risk, uncertainty: types of risk, mathematical techniques, probabilistic models, uncertainty in economic analysis; Tips on economic factors in computer spreadsheet analysis; Ethics in economic analyses

Reservoir fluid properties; Petroleum geology; The petroleum reservoir; Unconventional resources; Exploration technology; Drilling technology; Well completion and workover; Production operations; Recovery; Surface processing; Offshore operations

Basic well completion design, practices, and strategies; Well quality and integrity; Safety aspects of well design; Packer selection and tubing forces; Wellheads/chokes/ subsurface safety valves and flow control equipment; Corrosion and erosion Inflow and tubing performance; Tubing design and selection; Materials selection; Deviated/multiple zone/subsea horizontal/multilateral and hpht completion considerations; Perforating design; Causes and prevention of formation damage; Stimulation design considerations; Sand control; Wireline/coiled tubing/workover rig operations; Snubbing

Review of turbidite settings, processes, models; Turbidite systems at outcrop; Rock analogs for the subsurface (including injected sands); Modern deep-water systems; Alternative reservoir geometrics; Seismic character of deep-water systems; Borehole/wireline characteristics; Significance and use of various tools; Correlation of reservoir units; Predictive models for sand distribution; Critical data input to reserve models; Definition of pay

Planning including requirements for the completion and testing, AFE preparation; HSE at the rig site; Cost control, evaluating alternative drilling methods and maximizing penetration rate; Hole cleaning, sloughing shale, lost circulation, stuck pipe and fishing operations; Drilling fluids; Lifting capacity of drilling fluids, pressure losses in the circulating system and ECD; Maximizing hydraulics in the planning phase and at the rig; Bit selection and application; Casing and drill string design, selection of casing seats, BOP equipment; Cement, cement additives and displacement mechanics; Deviation control, directional drilling and horizontal drilling; Pressure control, routine and special problems; Project post analysis

Fundamental concepts of petrophysics; Depositional systems and petrophysical rock parameters; Nature of porosity and permeability; Basic rock properties; theory and quicklook techniques; Mudlogging; Core analysis, acquisition, interpretation, and quality checks; Theory and basics of resistivity, radioactivity, acoustic tools; LWD/MWD versus open hole logging; Determination of rock types using core and logs; Cased hole logging; Petrophysical impact on economic uncertainty; Evolving petrophysical technologies

Work identification; Planning; Prioritization; Scheduling; Execution; History records; Optimizing preventive maintenance; Predictive maintenance planning; Critical equipment focus; Emergency response

Comparison of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs; Worldwide Heavy Oil Resources and Occurrences; Bitumen and Heavy Oil Definitions and Introduction; Geology, History and Development of Canada Oil Sands; Oil Sand Characteristics and Development Strategies; Oil Sand Mining Details and Reclamation; Oil Sands In-situ Project Review; Introduction of Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD); Other Commercial Thermal In-situ Methodologies; Environmental Challenges for Heavy Oil Resources; Geology and Overview of Venezuela and Trinidad Heavy Oil Resources; Commercial Application of Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) in Venezuela; Introduction of United States Heavy Oil Occurrences (Utah, California and Texas)

Gas processing systems; Physical properties of hydrocarbons; Qualitative phase behavior; Vapor-liquid equilibrium;...