Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Geologists and Geoscientists
• Reservoir and Petroleum Engineers
• Drilling, Completion, and Production Engineers
• Wellsite Geologists and Logging Personnel
• Technical Staff involved in subsurface evaluation
• Anyone needing a foundational understanding of well logging

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the principles and purpose of well logging
• Identify the major types of open-hole and cased-hole logging tools
• Interpret basic measurements for lithology, porosity, and fluid saturation
• Integrate logging data with cores and seismic information
• Detect hydrocarbons using resistivity, porosity, and advanced logs
• Recognize limitations, uncertainties, and operational considerations

DAY 1

Fundamentals of Well Logging and Logging Tools

• Role of well logging in exploration, drilling, reservoir evaluation, and production 
• Basic petrophysical concepts: porosity, permeability, fluid saturation, and resistivity 
• Borehole environment, logging conditions, and data acquisition 
• Wireline logging systems and Logging While Drilling (LWD) / Measurement While Drilling (MWD) 
• Open-hole and cased-hole logging and logging program design 
• Gamma Ray, Spectral Gamma Ray, Spontaneous Potential, and Caliper logging 
• Log presentation, scales, reading techniques, and data quality control 
• Environmental corrections and interpretation of basic formation characteristics 
• Principles and applications of resistivity, induction, laterolog, and micro-resistivity tools 
• Density, neutron, and sonic logging for basic formation evaluation
   

DAY 2

Formation Evaluation and Log Interpretation

• Interpretation of density, neutron, sonic, and resistivity logs for formation evaluation 
• Cross-plot techniques for lithology and porosity determination 
• Determination of shale volume, total porosity, and effective porosity 
• Reservoir lithology identification and carbonate versus clastic evaluation 
• Recognition and interpretation of gas effects on well logs 
• Invasion profiles and mud filtrate effects on log responses
• Water saturation determination using Archie Equation and reservoir parameters 
• Evaluation of formation water resistivity, reservoir temperature, and fluid contacts 
• Log correlation techniques for reservoir interpretation and zonation 
• Integration of core data and log data for improved formation evaluation
  
   

DAY 3

Advanced Logging Applications and Reservoir Characterization

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) logging fundamentals and applications 
• Borehole imaging, dipmeter applications, and structural interpretation 
• Fracture identification and characterization from advanced logs 
• Pressure measurements, formation testing, and fluid sampling 
• Advanced formation evaluation and quantitative log interpretation workflows 
• Permeability estimation, net pay determination, and reservoir quality assessment 
• Shaly sand analysis and advanced reservoir characterization 
• Reservoir zonation, correlation, and integration of geological, petrophysical, and reservoir data 
• Applications of well logging in exploration, development, production optimization, and reservoir management 
• Common log interpretation challenges, digital well logging trends, best practices, and field case studies