Business Context:
A large amount of geological and other data is acquired (at substantial cost) during a drilling operation. Ensuring optimal quality of this information and effective reporting plays a key role during well design, drilling operations, reservoir modeling and in appraisal and evaluation during the life of the field.
A key requirement for success is close co-operation between the subsurface disciplines.

Who should attend:
Well-site geologists, drilling and operations engineers and other staff involved in the acquisition and use of well-site (geological) data.

Content of the program:

Petroleum Geology overview

• Drilling Operations:
  • Bits, Casing & Cementing, Fluids, Drilling Problems & Well Control, Geosteering
• Logging Operations (Petrophysics):
  • Acquisition, Concepts, Tools
  • Quick Look Interpretation

Operations Geology Overview

• Duties & Responsibilities
• Well Planning Processes
  • Site survey &shallow gas hazards
  • Drilling Programme
  • Contracting & Services
  • Data Management

Well site Geology Mud logging

• Mud logging Services
  • Data Acquisition
  • Monitoring (ROP, Gas, Mud)
  • Sampling & Cuttings
  • Evaluation
• Hydrocarbon Detection
• Sidewall & Coring
• Wireline Logs
• Reporting

Well site Contracting

• DrillingMud logging Mudlogging, Wireline, Services, Coring, QC

Learning, methods and tools:
At the end of the course, participants will have grasped the basic principles of well-site data acquisition quality control. They will learn the techniques used routinely by well-site geologists in formation evaluation through lectures, integrated with practical exercises. Participants will be using a microscope and routine cuttings analysis.
Participants will acquire understanding of drilling and logging problems caused by subsurface conditions, and of application of well-site data in exploration and development projects.