ADVANCED

PRODUCTION
LOGGING
Advanced Production and Through Casing Logging For
Reservoir Monitoring

11 15 May 2014, Abu Dhabi
19 23 May 2014, Kuala Lumpur

Your Expert Trainer: Dr James Smolen
Internationally recognized expert in cased hole logging with more than 30 years of oil industry experience in well
logging, related research, and training with 10 years in design, development, and testing of new cased hole
equipment at Schlumberger. Clients include Amoco, BP, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Mobil, AGIP/ENI, Anadarko, Oxy,
ONGC, ESSO Australia, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes (Atlas), Halliburton, Weatherford, and many others.

James is the author of Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation by Penn Well Publications. He also
authored more than a dozen technical publications on these subjects and in 1988 he was a
Distinguished Lecturer for SPE and SPWLA.


The course has been very well organised. All participants were able to benefit from the speakers vast experience & training
environment - Geoscientist, Baker Hughes
Great course - Petroleum Engineer, Petrofac Malaysia Limited
Great details and explanation by Jim Smolen. Step by step guidance by him on calculation part - Petrophysicist, Sarawak Shell
Thank you for the course, it is very useful and interesting PVD Baker Hughes
Experience lecturer, entertaining lecture series, Im able to capture the logging process from basic of it until interpretation
PETRONAS
This is a great training course to gain an understanding of through casing logging and production logging! Jim is an excellent
teacher Maersk Oil Qatar
A good training JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration


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ADVANCED PRODUCTION LOGGING
Advanced Production and Through Casing Logging for Reservoir Monitoring
11 15 May 2014 | Abu Dhabi | UAE * 19 23 May 2014 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

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The following agenda is based on three morning and three afternoon sessions daily, each session approximately one to 1-1/4 hours in length. These
sessions are labeled M1, M2, M3, and A1, A2, and A3 respectively. Note that class problems (PROBLEMS), movies (MOVIES), and guest lecturers
(GUEST) have been highlighted. Numerous log examples for class discussion are also presented throughout the course.

DAY ONE
M1
Introduction to advanced production evaluation logging
- Formation evaluation through casing
- Flow zonal contributions to production with a PLT

Roles of formation evaluation and production zonal
contributions for enhanced reservoir management.
- A look at the downhole environment (MOVIE)

M2
Gamma Ray (GR) Logging
- Open hole/cased hole correlation
- Shale response and shale volume determination
(PROBLEM)
- Spectral Gamma Ray logs and other applications

M3
Pulsed Neutron Capture (PNC) Logs
- Principles of neutron energy, gamma ray emissions, and
capture
- Basic formation modelClassic Model
- Ideal Sigma log response (PROBLEM)

A1
Pulsed Neutron Capture Logs (Continued)
- Porosity and salinity limitations for sigma (PROBLEM)

Determination of bulk formation capture cross section by
logging tools
- Exponential decay of neutron population
- Measurement of decay rate and sigma
- Tool characterization

A2
Development of the capture technique and log
presentation
- Major service company equipment development
- Primary and secondary log measurements
- Discrimination of borehole from formation environment
- Effects of different BH fluidswhich is best?

A3
Computation of saturations--clean and shaley zones
(PROBLEM)
- Dual water model overview
- Miscellaneous applications of PNC tools
- Residual Oil Saturation, ROS, by log-inject-log technique
DAY TWO
M1
Using X-Plots for determining water saturation from sigma
(PROBLEM)
- Matrix-water-hydrocarbon X-Plots
- Determining Sigma for water and matrix when they are
unknown
- Compensation for Shaley zones

M2
Detection of Water Flow by Oxygen Activation using PNC
tools
- Water movement shut-in and flowing count rates
- Water movement using the time of flight technique
- Data presentation from various companies
- Schlumberger Water Flow Log, WFL (PROBLEM)

M3
Carbon-Oxygen Measurements
- Used when salinities are low or unknown (e.g.
waterflood)
- Sources of carbon and oxygen counts downhole
- Windows vs. Elemental Yields Techniques
- Logging Speed and Depth of Investigation issues

A1
Carbon-Oxygen Measurements (continued)
- Log presentations (BV, ratios, Ca/Si-C/O overlay, C/O
envelope)
- Setting up C/O envelope from Open Hole information
- Clean zones (PROBLEM)
- Shaley zones (PROBLEM)

A2
New tools (RST (Schlumberger), RPM (Baker), RMT
(Halliburton), RAPTOR (Weatherford), Others (Hunter,
Scientific Drilling, HotWell)

Determination of saturation and holdup for the RST
(PROBLEM)

Specialized PNC/PNS applications
- WOC location through a sand screen or gravel pack
- Problems with Sigma evaluation through tubing and
casing
- Effects of Shut-in on invasion and saturation evaluation
- Detection of acid placement

Baker Atlas Gas View, for enhanced gas detection

A3
PNC/PNS job planning program and preparation
- Downhole temperature, pressure
- Conveyance and logging speed
- Borehole fluid
- Borehole configuration, size, caliper (open hole)/depth of
investigation
- Shut-in or Flowing
- Porosity, Shaleyness




ADVANCED PRODUCTION LOGGING
Advanced Production and Through Casing Logging for Reservoir Monitoring
11 15 May 2014 | Abu Dhabi | UAE * 19 23 May 2014 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

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DAY THREE
M1
Through-Casing Resistivity
- Tool Theory
- Stationary measurements
- Effects of anomalies, normalization, and cement

Formation Testing Through Casing
- Testing using perforations
- Plugging holes after testing (CHDT)

M2
Continuously Run Spinner Flowmeters in Vertical Wells
- Types of Spinners
- Log data required to be recorded

Spinner response under ideal conditions
- Effects of viscosity and mechanical threshold
- Detection of bulk fluid movement using spinners

M3
Interpretation of Spinner Logs for Bulk Production Profile
- Multipass plot technique (PROBLEM)
- Interpretation when only down runs are available

A1
Fluid Identification Devices for Multiphase Flow
- Holdup vs. cut
- Bulk fluid density

Pressure differential tools (Gradiomanommeter)

Nuclear fluid density, focused and unfocussed
- Capacitance devices
- Bubble probes (DEFT/Flowview, GHOST, CAT, RAT)
- Gas Holdup Tool --GHT
- Other (Vibrating Reed, PNC borehole sigma, borehole
C/O, etc.)
- Slip velocity between the flowing phases

A2
Computation of Two Phase Flow in a Well (PROBLEM)

A3
Productivity Index, Inflow Performance, Zonal Production
- Radial flow into a wellbore
- Effects of pressure drawdown
- Productivity Index, PI
- Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)
- Linear IPR
- Vogel relationship

DAY FOUR
M1
Determining zonal IPRs using flowmeter and pressure data
(PROBLEM)
- Predicting zonal performance at different well flow
rates

M2
Requirements to solve for three phase flow

Multiphasic flow in deviated wells
- Marathon study (Liquid-Liquid) (MOVIE)
- Atlas Flow Loop (Gas- Liquid) (MOVIE)

Tools to deal with the deviated multiphase flow environment

The problem of large diameter casing with low multiphase
flow

M3
High Deviation Angle and Horizontal Multiphase Flow

Visualization of horizontal flow
- Schlumberger Cambridge Research Center Video (MOVIE)
- Schlumberger Flagship Tool String

Dual DEFT (Flowview Plus)/GHOST-Gas Holdup

Non-radioactive gadolinium based tracers for stratified flow
- Baker Atlas POLARIS Tool String and Atlas Flow Loop
(MOVIE)

Pulsed Neutron Holdup Indicator (PNHI/RPM)

MultiCapacitance FlowMeter(MCFM)

A1
High Deviation Angle and Horizontal Multiphase Flow
(Continued)

Schlumberger Flow Scan Imager(FSI) (PROBLEM)
- Spinner Array on A-Frame structure
- Fluid Sensor Arrays for 2 and 3 phase Horizontal Flow

Independent Horizontal Flow Tools strings
- Sondex/Halliburton horizontal flow tools (MAPS)

Spinner Array Tool (SAT)

Capacitance Array (CAT), Resistance Array (RAT)
- Hunter Well Science (New PL Tool supplier)

A2
Conveying tools in the horizontal/highly deviated environment
- Pump down
- Coiled Tubing
- Tractors
- Memory vs Real Time Modes Logging Operations

A3
Temperature Logging
- Causes of temperature anomalies
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ADVANCED PRODUCTION LOGGING
Advanced Production and Through Casing Logging for Reservoir Monitoring
11 15 May 2014 | Abu Dhabi | UAE * 19 23 May 2014 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

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Temperature logs in producing wells
- Liquid entries
- Gas entries
- Detection of channels

Quantitative temperature log evaluation (PROBLEM)

Temperature logs in injection wells
- Injection Zones, Fracture Height, Acid Placement

DAY FIVE
M1
Noise Logs (Traditional)

Stationery noise and frequency measurements
- Log Presentation
- Determination of single or two phase flow
- Location of gas-liquid interfaced in the wellbore
- Detection of moving fluid in channels
- Review combination noise-temperature surveys

M2
Radioactive Tracer Logging
- Tool configuration for injection well profiling
- Radioactive materials available
- Basic technique for location of injection zones and
channels


Quantitative Injection Profiling

Area Technique (PROBLEM)
- Area under GR curve indicates fraction of initial flow
remaining

Velocity Shot Technique (PROBLEM)
- Selection of positions for velocity shot tests
- Computatio of volumetric flow rate

M3
Distributed Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing (DTS)
- What DTS is and how it works non-intrusive temperature
logs
- How the fiber optic line is set up in a well
- Quality / Resolution issues

Distributed Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensors DAS
- Gross and Spectral Noise to Detect Fluid Entries with
Examples

A1
Guest Speaker from Major Service Company
Guest speakers will be invited to speak for one or two sessions at
convenient times during the week

Who Should Attend?
Senior and experienced reservoir and production engineers and geologists, petrophysicists, log analysts and others involved in well
surveillance, maximizing recovery, identifying production problems, or planning workover operations. Participants are required to have
undergone prior basic training on this subject or have had extensive work experience in related topics discussed above.

About Your Expert Trainer: Dr James Smolen
Internationally recognized Guru in cased hole logging with more than 30 years of oil industry experience in well logging, related
research, and training with 10 years in design, development, and testing of new cased hole equipment at Schlumberger. Clients include
Amoco, BP, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Mobil, AGIP/ENI, Anadarko, Oxy, ONGC, ESSO Australia, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes (Atlas),
Halliburton, Weatherford, and many others.

Education:
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1965
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Professional Membership and Career:
Member Society of Professional Well Log Analysts,
SPWLA, 1972-present
Member Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE, 1972-present
Professional Engineer, Texas, 1974-2005
Distinguished Lectures for the SPWLA, 1988
Distinguished Lecturer for the SPE, 1988

He also authored more than a dozen technical publications on these subjects
1. Smolen, James J. and van der Spek, Alex, Distributed Temperature SensingA DTS Primer for Oil & Gas Production Unclassified,
Shell International Exploration And Production B. V., The Hague, The Netherlands, 2003.
2. Smolen, James J., and Gysen, Michel, PLATO User Manual Shell International Exploration and Production B.V., The Hague, The
Netherlands, and Interpretive Software Products, Inc., Houston, Texas, 2000.
3. Whittaker, J.L., Golich, G.M., and Smolen, J.J., Diagnosing Horizontal Well Production in the Belridge Field with Downhole Video
and Production Logs SPE Paper 38295, 1997 SPE Western Regional Meeting, Long Beach, June 1997.

Here are some current testimonials from previous delegates attending Dr. Smolens courses:
Jamess explanation is easy to understand, Provides cased hole & prod log from A to Z, Excellent and highly recommended cased hole
logging course, Good course, esp trainer, Great videos!




ADVANCED PRODUCTION LOGGING
Advanced Production and Through Casing Logging for Reservoir Monitoring
11 15 May 2014 | Abu Dhabi | UAE * 19 23 May 2014 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

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