Drilling operations log,rock formation properties fluid properties hydrocarbon and water flow potential. Petrophysics, borehole geophysics, and subsurface geology. Petroleum production petroleum production formation evaluation. It was one of four disciplinerelated journals created from the dissolution of the society of petroleum. In petroleum exploration and development, formation evaluation is used to determine the ability of a borehole to produce petroleum. The principal objectives of formation evaluation are to evaluate the presence. Genesis and the origin of coal and oil by trevor major, m. Pdf evaluation of the petroleum potentials and prospect. Well logging and formation evaluation free download pdf. Formation evaluation is the key to determining whether a well has struck pay, or is just a dry hole. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Pdf formation evaluation of a clastic gas reservoir. Essentially, it is the process of recognizing a commercial well when you drill one.
In petroleum exploration and development formation evaluation is done to. For a symmetric distribution, this will equal the p50 value. Formation evaluation schlumberger oilfield glossary. Evaluation of the petroleum potentials and prospect of the chad basin nigeria from heat flow and gravity data article pdf available march 2011 with 1,193 reads how we measure reads.
Terms in this discipline range from archie equation to logging, and from permeability to za effect. Chapter 1 introduction hat is the origin of coal and oil. It is expected that they have some knowledge of petroleum engineering and basic. Basic petroleum geochemistry for source rock evaluation. The ultimate objective of well logging in the petroleum industry is to economically establish the existence of producible hydrocarbon reservoirs oil and gas. Formation evaluation msc course notes reservoir drives dr. Historically, after a borehole penetrated a potential productive zone, the formations were tested to determine their nature and the degree to which completion procedures the.
This is a hard question to avoid in our fueldriven economies. Kevin mccarthy katherine rojas houston, texas, usa martin niemann roissyenfrance, france. Petroleum production formation evaluation britannica. Advances in technology have occurred in well logging and the evaluation of geological formations more than in any other area of petroleum production. Generally, however, they involve using core and fluid laboratory physical and chemical property measurements and well logs to evaluate wells for potential hydrocarbon reservoir rocks and the volume of economic hydrocarbon accumulations, as well as. Formation evaluation an overview sciencedirect topics. The terms formation evaluation fe, well log analysis, and petrophysics are often used interchangeably but do have slightly different meanings. The purpose of this book is to provide a series of. Pdf on jan 1, 2010, nitin sharma and others published formation evaluation of. Spe formation evaluation was published from 19861997. Hard to know, but scientific estimates in 1996 suggest that 23 of commercial oil have already been found. It is an ever growing and evolving field of petroleum engineering petrophysicists are engineers or geologists that specialize in the profession of formation evaluation. This paper was prepared for the 43rd annual california regional.
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