This course provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of methods, procedures and issues related to laboratory conventional and special core analysis for describing and evaluating reservoir rock properties, and all considerations that should be taken into account for reservoir characterization.
Public :
Geoscientists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, petroleum engineers and other E&P professionals willing to deepen their knowledge in conventional and special core analysis.
Level :Skilled
Prerequisite :
Degree in geology, petroleum engineering or reservoir engineering, or equivalent experience, with basic knowledge in core analysis.
Course Content
CORING & CORE ANALYSIS
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Introduction.
Business value of core analysis demonstrated on real life examples.
Necessary quality procedures at the start of a measurement program.
Coring methods (conventional vs. pressure coring, decompression during tripping).
Core preservation.
Core cleaning.
Representative wettability (fresh vs. restored state).
Conventional and Special Core Analysis (SCAL).
GENERALITIES ON TWO-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Darcy’s law for two phases, relative permeability.
Capillary pressure.
Wettability (Amott and USBM methods).
Impact of wettability on relative permeability and capillary pressure.
Basics of JBN analysis for the UnSteady-State experiment.
Effect of capillary pressure demonstrated by hands-on simulation, using the SCORES SCAL simulator.
CONVENTIONAL CORE ANALYSIS
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Duration : 1 Day
Porosity definition and measurement.
Permeability (absolute) definition and measurements.
Formation factor and Resistivity Index definition and measurement.
Mercury injection (MICP) for reservoir saturation height function and pore size distribution.
Recent developments in MICP showing important problems in MICP for low permeability rock when assessing transition zones.
SPECIAL CORE ANALYSIS (SCAL), MEASUREMENTS OF SCAL PROPERTIES
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Duration : 1 Day
Overview of measurement methods and data interpretation for relative permeability and capillary pressure.
Analysis of centrifuge data using Hassler-Brunner, Forbes methods.
Analysis of centrifuge data using Hagoort method.
Effect of relative permeability on capillary pressure measurement demonstrated by hands-on simulations using the SCORES SCAL simulator.
QUALITY CONTROL OF AVAILABLE DATA
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Duration : 1 Day
Sample selection using X-ray CT for homogeneity assessment.
Representative wettability, special considerations for transition zones.
Recognizing unusual features.
AVERAGING PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Saturation height function assessment.
Leverett-J function.
Initial water saturation.
Rock-typing.
Gridding for reservoir simulation.
DESIGN OF SCAL PROGRAM
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Demonstration step-by-step approach.
Establish SCAL program objective.
Understanding of strength and weaknesses of each SCAL method.
Need for imbibition capillary pressure to interpret relative permeability data.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
Discuss rock properties used in reservoir modeling and reservoir simulation models,
Discuss, interpret and validate a CCAL and a SCAL report and review a quality control process,
Design a SCAL program with regard to given objectives.
Ways & Means
Highly interactive course alternating theory, exercises and field cases.
Use of the SCAL (Special Core Analysis) license free simulator SCORES.
Learning assessment
Knowledge assessment with multiple choice questions and open explanatory questions.
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