Modern Production Logging

Instructors: James J. Smolen, Ph.D.
Course Length: 5 Days
Course CEUs: 4.0

Course Description
This course is a comprehensive and up-to-date course covering the new and traditional wireline diagnostic techniques for production log surveillance of cased wells. Dr. Smolen's 1996 book, Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation, plus a loose-leaf workbook, are provided to participants of this program. The following topics are covered in detail:

WATER IDENTIFICATION AND FLUID MOVEMENT IN BOTH INJECTION AND PRODUCING WELLS are evaluated using spinners, tracers, pulsed neutron oxygen activation, temperature and noise surveys. A variety of fluid identification devices are used to evaluate multiphase flow. These tools together are used to quantify the sources of water, oil, and gas production, and are critical to the control of excessive water or other phases. Inflow Performance Relationships (IPR) are determined for individual downhole zones. Special considerations are given for deviated and horizontal wells. The newest tools designed for horizontal applications, such as Schlumberger's Flow Scanning Imager (FSI) or Baker's POLARIS are reviewed. Numerous videos of and in vertical, deviated, and horizontal flows are used to aid in visualization of the logging environment. Distributed Temperature Sensing, DTS, a new non-intrusive temperature logging technique based on fiber optic technology is also introduced. PLATO software for analysis of 2 and 3 phase flows is demonstrated based on spinner and fluid identification device data.

Who should attend
Reservoir and production engineers and geologists, petrophysicists, log analysts and others involved in well surveillance, maximizing recovery, identifying production problems or planning workover operations. This course is also well suited for Cased Hole sales engineers.

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