Well Logging and Formation Evaluation

This handy guide in the Gulf Drilling Guides series offers practical techniques that are valuable to petrophysicists and engineers in their day-to-day jobs. Based on the author's many years of experience working in oil companies around the world, this guide is a comprehensive collection of techniques and rules of thumb that work.

The primary functions of the drilling or petroleum engineer are to ensure that the right operational decisions are made during the course of drilling and testing a well, from data gathering, completion and testing, and thereafter to provide the necessary parameters to enable an accurate static and dynamic model of the reservoir to be constructed. This guide supplies these, and many other, answers to their everyday problems.

• A valuable reference dedicated solely to well logging and formation evaluation.
• Comprehensive coverage of the latest technologies and practices, including, troubleshooting for stuck pipe, operational decisions, and logging contracts.
• Packed with money-saving and time saving strategies for the engineer working in the field.

Introduction

Chapter 1 : Basics
Chapter 2 : Quicklook Log Interpretation
Chapter 3 : Full Interpretation
Chapter 4 : Saturation/Height Analysis
Chapter 5 : Advanced Log Interpretation Techniques
Chapter 6 :Integration with Seismic
Chapter 7 : Rock Mechanics Issues
Chapter 8 : Value of Information
Chapter 9 :Equity Determinations
Chapter 10 : Production Geology Issues
Chapter 11 : Reservoir Engineering Issues
Chapter 12 : Homing-in Techniques
Chapter 13 : Well Deviation, Surveying, and Geosteering

Appendix 1 : Test Well 1 Data Sheet
Appendix 2 : Additional Data for Full Evaluation
Appendix 3 : Solutions to Exercises
Appendix 4 : Additional Mathematics Theory
Appendix 5 : Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix 6 : Useful Conservation Units and Constants
Appendix 7 : Contractor Tool Menemonics
Biblography
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Index