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Dear Members, We decided to hold off on off on sending the December Newsletter out until the festive period had passed and most people are back at work, thus avoiding the mail landing at the bottom of a very full inbox! I hope this finds you all well, refreshed and ready for 2015 packed with a great series of lectures and one day seminars at London Petrophysi-cal Society. I would like to start by acknowledging Alex (Lexie) Sarney for her contributions on the LPS committee and also ask you in welcoming Negah Ardjmandpour as new Secretary, taking over from Lexie as of this week. We look forward to seeing Lexie at future LPS sessions and I am confident Negah will be an excellent addition to the team. In regards to recently past seminars, on 11th December we held a thoroughly successful and well attended one day seminar covering all aspects of Reservoir Fluids. Some great talks and fantastic questions which later led to lengthy debate at the President’s Evening. I would like to make a special thank you to Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Weatherford for heavily subsidising the President’s Evening at the King’s Head without whom it would be very difficult to make it free for all members as it has been. It was a good night and a wonderful chance to catch up with old & new colleagues and friends alike. As we enter 2015, with a low oil price and many of us facing cost reductions and search for optimisation I hope that LPS can help serve part of that need. We continue to aim to provide seminar subject material that you, the members, want to hear about and at a very low cost to attend. Registration costs for one day seminars will be held steady at £150 throughout 2015. Indeed seminars will be continue to be free for students (with some limitations on the number of student spaces) and reasonable travel costs covered. With that in mind I would like to remind you of two upcoming events;
On 29th January 2015 we will host the annual New Technology Seminar. This is free to attend with no registra-tion necessary. It is always a packed event and exiting to see what new innovations are out there. Please come along.
On 10th February 2015 we will have a an evening meeting commencing at the usual 18:30hrs titled “Educating the Petrophysicist - how we should teach Petrophysics and a review of the 2014 SPWLA Spring Conference” by Professor Mike Lovell from University of Leicester. Again a free event and no registration necessary.
Details for both events are available on the LPS website. I would also like to remind readers that we are still calling for abstracts for the one day seminar on 26th March titled “What's So Special About Core Analyses”. We already have good number of exciting talks so if you are interested in speaking, or have a proposal for a speaker then please contact Mike Millar to register the interest. Finally, I urge members to consider nominations or applications for both the Iain Hillier Academic Award Scheme and the Dick Woodhouse Award for Young Professionals. Details for both of which can be found on the website. Best Regards,
Iain Whyte
Iain Whyte : LPS President
Service Companies
Mike Lovell
University of Leicester
Eric Goergen
(FEI)
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Membership
Peter Fitch
Seminars
Ian Draper
Newsletter
Rob Leveridge
President: Iain Whyte (Tullow) Treasurer: Paul Hoddinott (E.On) Secretary: Negah Ardjmandpour (GE Oil & Gas) VP Technology: Elizabeth Davis (BP) VP Seminars: Ian Draper (Baker Hughes) VP Arrangements: Ben Fletcher (BG) VP Publications: Michael O’Keefe (Schlumberger) VP Comms & Newsletter: Rob Leveridge (Schlumberger) VP Membership: Mauricio Castellanos (TGS Nopec) VP External Relations: Peter Fitch (Imperial College) Past President: Mike Millar (BG)
Date Evening Lectures Presenter
Tuesday 10th Feb
Educating the Petrophysicist – how we should teach
petrophysics and a review of the 2014 SPWLA Spring
Conference
Mike Lovell (University
of Leicester)
Tuesday 3rd Mar Tying image and mineral analyses to the
Petrophysical properties of rocks
Eric Goergen
(FEI)
Monday 14th Apr Geometry & evolution of silica diagenetic
boundaries in the Norwegian margin
Thilo Wrona
(Imperial College)
Tuesday 12th May Formation evaluation strategies for
unconventional reservoirs
Mark Bacciarelli
(Weatherford
International)
Tuesday 2nd Jun Evaluation of water saturation measurements:
Where are we now?
Paul Worthington
(Park Royd)
Tuesday 21st July
Mancos Shale, Utah, Implications of Sequence Stra-
tigraphy, Microfacies and Compositional Variability
for Shale Gas Reservoir Structure.
Tracey Vaitekaitis
(University of
Manchester)
Date Evening Lectures Presenter
Thursday 29th Jan New Technology Seminar Service Companies
Thursday 26th Mar What's So Special About Core Analyses? Various
Thursday 25th Jun Permeability from Reservoir Quality to the Simulator Various
Thursday 24th Sep Frontier Exploration Various
Thursday 10th Dec Petrophysical Uncertainty followed by Presidents
Evening Various
Thurs 29th Jan
New Technology Seminar
Thursday 29th Jan 2015
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
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Speaker Talk Title Company SubSector
James Christiansen MFT sampling Weatherford Wireline
Robert Laronga Photorealistic imaging in wells drilled with OBM
Schlumberger Wireline
Wael Soleiman CoreVault
TM Wireline Rotary Coring Fluid
and Rock Sampling System Halliburton Wireline
Stuart Huyton Wireline standoffs - tbc Gaia Earth Sci-
ences Wireline
Matt Norgate / Paul Carragher
Advances in downhole electric cutting tools/ Liquid metal zone isolation
GE/ BiSN Wireline
Roberto Nardiello Formation evaluation behind casing: recent pulsed neutron application developments
Baker Hughes Wireline /
surveillance
Erlend Fævelen The evolution of inflow tracer monitoring - from single well marking to field monitoring
Resman Surveillance
Andrew Tugwell MagPi ADP Core/ mudlog-
ging
Alan Butcher Image and mineral analysis FEI Core/ mudlog-
ging
Alf Berle Intelligent Coring System CoreAll Core/ mudlog-
ging
Jenny Omma QEMSCAN at wellsite: a geosteering tool for conventional clastic reservoirs
Rocktype Core/ mudlog-
ging
Carmen Vieitez LWD Sampling Baker Hughes MWD/LWD
Arthur Walmsley GeoTap IDS - a new LWD formation fluid sampling and pressure testing tool
Halliburton MWD/LWD
Medhat Mikael Real time azimuthal acoustic measure-ments from an LWD platform
Weatherford MWD/LWD
Graham Raeper Slow formations, Large boreholes, Qualitative cement bond
Schlumberger MWD/LWD
Registration at Burlington House on 29th Jan from 9am
Free Entry for members, non members, and Students.
Includes lunch and refreshments.
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Thurs 26th Mar
Mike Millar
Seminar chair
Call for Abstracts
What's So Special About Core Analyses?
Thursday 26th March 2015
London Petrophysical Society Newsletter Issue 1 2015
On Thursday 26th March 2015 the London Petrophysical Society will be holding a one-
day seminar entitled "What's So Special About Core Analyses?" at the Geological
Society, Burlington House, London. This is the latest in our line of "Basic FE" seminars,
and is intended as an introduction to Core Analyses for Petrophysicists and other Geosci-
entists. This one-day seminar will provide a basic understanding and vocabulary for
professionals from a wide-variety of backgrounds and it should work to improve the way
we can work together as a team to achieve effective integration of core data into the un-
derstanding of our reservoirs.
This is a Call for Abstracts for presentations from Oil & Gas Companies, Service
Companies, Independent Consultants, Academia and other interested parties on the topic.
The seminar consists of a series of themed talks each lasting between 35 and 40 minutes,
with 5 to 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We also hope that we will be able to
give a set of the abstracts and the presentation slides (either as presented or edited) to the
participants after the event.
We are looking for talks covering topics such as;
Introduction to analysing cores - plugging, cleaning/drying, basic analysis and some
basic QC
Calibrating log-to-core for porosity and permeability
Designing completions with core data - sieve, rock strength, formation damage
Understanding reservoir quality - sedimentology, petrography
This seminar is intended for general technical interest (as opposed to sales or marketing)
and we request that the talks are kept technical in nature, with the use of generic rather
than trade names.
Abstracts should be up to 300 words and may include one or two illustrations and
submitted in Word Document or Adobe PDF format.
Please send you abstracts to Mike Millar ([email protected]), or any member
of the LPS committee. You can also contact Mike if you have any questions or
suggestions.
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NMR Logging, Petrophysics, Practical Application, Quality Control, and Compu-ting Lab 5 Day Course/Workshop, Marseilles, 9-13 March, 2015
(Pullman Palm Beach Marseille)
To enroll email [email protected], more info at www.nmrpetrophysics.com
1000+ students in 55 courses since 1997
Course Overview: This is a comprehensive summary of NMR Logging including physics, signal processing, practical considera-tions, tool selection, job design, data processing, interpretation, quality control and log/core integration. Emphasis is on practical application and building of interpretation skills with dozens case studies. Computing lab to include processing of CMR Plus with conventional logs, MRIL with core data, conventional logs, and differential spectrum, and MRX with T2D and conventional logs data sets using Logic software and others as available. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own data sets to process during the course. We will begin with theory on the first day, go into data loading, phase correction, echo processing, move into different filtering options and inversion. As the course progresses we will look at the mechanisms of T2, T1 and diffusion, look at other effects such as restricted diffusion, mineral and temperature effects. We will progress through dozens of case studies, and quality control, review all of the commercial wireline and LWD tools. We will examine fluid identification in detail and learn about the processing of T1 T2 D maps, and will also cover log-core integration and all recent publications and advances in NMR through 2014. This course will provide an understanding of:
NMR physics, T1, T2 and diffusion, T2 interpretation, pore size and fluid effects
Signal processing, inversion, averaging, signal to noise, first echo, inversion algorithms, filtering, regularization
NMR porosity, calibration, corrections for polarization and hydrogen index
How to decipher how your NMR log was actually acquired - which corrections were used
Differing log results from different tools in similar wellbores
Clay bound vs capillary bound - the reality, and sensitivity to cutoffs
Defining Swirr, relating to capillary pressure and how to approach this issue with NMR logs
The evolution of total porosity logging - new acquisition methods for Unconventionals
Bound fluid, T2 cutoff, spectral, HBVI, variable, cap pressure models, lithology driven models
Permeability models (Timur-Coates, SDR, bin weighting), calibration and new approaches to NMR permeability
NMR log integration with resistivity based analysis
NMR processing workflows in commercial software, Logic, IP, and others
T1 logging theory and application
Complications of NMR, internal gradients, restricted diffusion, iron minerals, wettability alteration and temperature effects, diffusive coupling
Dozens of case studies, shaley sand, laminated sands, mixed lithology, carbonates, evaporate plugging
Effects of gas, low, moderate and high viscosity oil, integrating NMR and dielectric logs
Proper acquisition and processing protocol for low porosity, wellsite safety, history of NMR logging
Implications of tool designs, eccentered tools, focused and gradient fields, single vs multi-frequency tools
The trade-off between repeatability, bed resolution, signal to noise and logging speed and how to optimize acquisition for a given application, how to recover or reprocess data with sup-optimal acquisition
Which digital curves to obtain, mnemonics from various companies, job planning and design, parameter selection
Fluid identification from simple T2 analysis, differential spectrum and time domain analysis, shifted spectrum, enhanced diffusion, MRF, T1, T2, D maps, diffusion editing, 4D NMR
Practical considerations of NMR logging including environmental effects, Job design for deviated, horizontal wells
Commercial tools and appropriate uses of each including CMR, CMR-200, CMR+, MRX, MRIL B and C, MRIL Prime, MRIL-XL, MREX, Sperry, Baker, Anadrill LWD tools, and MRILab, Javelin
Quality control of NMR logs. frequency tuning, calibration, service company specs, examining repeatability - critical review of NMR vs other data - several case studies
QC checklist, tool operating modes, tool planners from SLB & Logic, how to forward model your NMR log
NMR shale applications, determination of grain density, TOC, improving SNR at low T2, integration with geochemical logs, applications in Eagleford, and many others
Correcting for restricted diffusion effects, ROS from NMR, log-inject-log, litho-facies from NMR using clustering
Log – core integration, high freq lab machines, data processing capabilities of commercial software packages
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