Reservoir Characterization and Evaluation

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Basic petroleum geology and geophysics; geological depositional environments; petrophysical and geostatistical analysis. Fundamentals of wireline well logging and log interpretation techniques. Types of well logging devices; physics of operation and response characteristics of various well logging tools. Leakage monitoring using well logs, geothermal fluid leakage monitoring, applications of well log to subsurface energy pathways. Prerequisite(s): Geology 377 and Petroleum Engineering 310.