1 Basics 12 Quicklook Log Interpretation 293 Full Interpretation 494 Saturation/Height Analysis 595 Advanced Log Interpretation Techniques 676 Integration with Seismic 1037 Rock Mechanics Issues 1158 Value Of Information 1199 Equity Determinations 12510 Production Geology Issues 13711 Reservoir Engineering Issues 15512 Homing-in Techniques 17113 Well Deviation, Surveying, and Geosteering 193Appendix 1 Test Well 1 Data Sheet 207Appendix 2 Additional Data for Full Evaluation 215Appendix 3 Solutions to Exercises 218Appendix 4 Additional Mathematics Theory 251Appendix 5 Abbreviations and Acronyms 264Appendix 6 Useful Conversion Units and Constants 268Appendix 7 Contractor Tool Mnemonics 271Bibliography 309About the Author 313Acknowledgments 314Index 315

This hand guide in the Gulf Drilling Guides series offers practical techniques that are valuable to petrophysicists and engineers in their day-to-day jobs. Based on the author's many years of experience working in oil companies around the world, this guide is a comprehensive collection of techniques and rules of thumb that work.

The primary functions of the drilling or petroleum engineer are to ensure that the right operational decisions are made during the course of drilling and testing a well, from data gathering, completion and testing, and thereafter to provide the necessary parameters to enable an accurate static and dynamic model of the reservoir to be constructed. This guide supplies these, and many other, answers to their everyday problems.

There are chapters on NMR logging, core analysis, sampling, and interpretation of the data to give the engineer a full picture of the formation. There is no other single guide like this, covering all aspects of well logging and formation evaluation, completely updated with the latest techniques and applications.