Course Outline:

• Review of core concepts & analysis.
• Objectives and requirements of core analysis.
• How core measurements can provide reliable means of determining reservoirs critical parameters.
• Basic data.

• 1. Texture.
  2. Mineralogical.
  3. Permeability & textural relationships.
  4. Porosity.
  5. Relative permeability.
  6. Capillarity pressure & fluid saturations.

• Coring hardware.
• Core sampling.
• Interpretation.
• Applications.

• 1. Porosity measurement & comparison.
  2. Measuring permeability under confining pressure.
  3. Comparison of permeability.
  4. Fluid saturation measurement.
  5. Comparing sidewall & conventional core saturations.

• Reserve injectivity & recoverable reserve estimates.
• Water correlation method.
• A systematic approach to designing a core analysis scheme.