You will learn how to:

• Determine the nature, volume, and distribution of clay minerals and shales in shaly sands and their impact on the analyses of cores and logs
• Integrate petrographic, core, and log data to significantly improve reservoir evaluation in shaly sands and other rock types containing significant amounts of microporosity
• Bring order out of chaos on porosity-permeability cross-plots using rock typing
• Evaluate effective and total porosity, fluid saturations, and producibility of shaly sands using time-tested specific methods
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of advanced logging tools for characterization of shaly sands

Petro physicists, geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and explorationists involved in all phases of reservoir evaluation in shaly sand provinces.

• Review of log interpretation techniques in clean formations
• Core analyses and applications of specific core tests
• Petrographic analysis (thin section, X-ray diffraction SEM/EDS) for shaly sand evaluation
• The nature of clay minerals and shale laminations and how they are distributed in shaly sands
• Influence of clay minerals and shale laminations on petrophysical properties
• Occurrence of clay minerals and shale laminations in reservoir rocks and relation to depositional environment and diagenesis
• Integration of petrographic, core, and log data for evaluation of shaly sands
• Effects of clay minerals and shale laminations on log responses in shaly sands: various methods of shale content evaluation
• Models for porosity and saturation determination: total and effective porosity; and Archie, Waxman-Smits, Dual Water and Juhasz saturation methods
• Prediction of permeability and producibility from logs in shaly sands: identification of bypassed pay
• Use of advanced logs (NMR, BHI, Dipmeters) integration with core data for purposes of evaluation

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.