Well Log Courses – Well Logs: Beyond Basics

This course is the continuation of the course presented on May 6, 2022; Well Logs: Basics. However, it can be taken without having taken the earlier Well Logs: Basics course.

 

Friday, June 10, 2022

In-Person Event

Location: Western Geco/SLB Q Auditorium GeoCollaboration Center

10001 Richmond Avenue, Houston, TX

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast and Networking

Course: 9:00am – 4:00pm CST

 

HGS Members $110 HGS Student Members $60  Non-members $150

Registration includes Course Notes, Continental Breakfast and Lunch

 

Attendees will be emailed a Certificate of Continuing Education for 8 Professional Development Hours after the event.

 

**Non-Members can submit a member application and pay their HGS dues before registering to get the member price. Please call the HGS office at 713-463-9476 to be registered only AFTER your application and dues are submitted online.**

 

 Registration will close Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm CST.

 

 Course Description and Outline

This 8-hour course will give both geoscientists and engineers:

Session Seven: Sonic Logs

Measurement theory, monopole, dipole, ultrasonic
Applications for verifying cement integrity
Sonic porosity, how does it fit in with the litho-porosity models
Dipole and cross dipole, rock mechanics, anisotropy and external stress and strength fields

Session Eight:  Unconventional Reservoirs, Lessons learned in the vertical wells

A different optimization paradigm in Unconventional Plays
Rock Mechanics and the external stress fields (current and ancient) from sonic and imager data
Geochemistry techniques for TOC, Applying Passey Log Delta R and other models
Direct Geochemistry from pulsed-neutron spectroscopy
Data available in the lateral

Session Nine: Break-out, Surveying the lateral and geo-steering

In this break-out the participants receive a horizontal well survey plot (paper or digital) with a vertical well near the heel and a vertical well near the toe from the “Wolf Bone” play in the Delaware basin. After correlating the vertical wells what is the analysis of the geo-steering targets?

Lunch Break

Session Ten: introduction to NMR logs

Session Eleven: Introduction to Formation Testers and Capillary pressure discussion

Session Twelve: Small scale applications of Artificial Intelligence in log analysis

Normalization and harmonization of well data sets: GR normalization example
Emulation of missing data: mapping Cased-hole analysis example
Automated classification of rock sequences for

pruning of training data,
sand thickness and bed counts,
time-to-depth for seismic.

Wrap-up discussion for the day two.

Summary

The aim of the short course is to create a learning environment that can educate the novice and challenge the experts.  There will be several in-class exercises and break-out discussions to get hands-on experiences. Course materials will be available to work on paper or digital files to process on the computer, participants that use a petrophysics platform are encouraged to bring a Laptop.  Other course materials provided will be a list of references and a 3-month license of Hydrocarbon Data Systems Petrophysical platform HDS-LOG.

About the instructor:

Richard Odom

Mr. Odom is a petrophysicist and geologist with more than 40 years of experience in domestic and international basins. He has authored numerous papers and patents on petrophysics and well-logging tool design.

Areas of expertise:

Reservoir monitoring using pulsed-neutron systems,
Open-hole and LWD log analysis, basic and advanced techniques,
Field-level data harmonization and geologic model building,
Artificial intelligence and statistical analysis of large data sets,
Analysis of production and completions (production logs, cement integrity).

Education and industry affiliations:

BS, geophysics, New Mexico Tech, 1980
MS, geology, University of Texas at Arlington, 2009
TBPG Professional Geoscientist – Geophysics #6718

Current Positions:

Chief Executive Officer at Hydrocarbon Data Systems Inc.
Managing Partner at Oil & Gas Evaluation & Consulting

Richard Odom
[email protected]
817-975-1231

 

Schlumberger is graciously providing a gratis venue for this course.
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