This course highlights the techniques and principles of the main open-hole and cased-hole logging tools used in the oil industry, with a focus on how to interpret and apply log data in practical reservoir evaluation and well engineering decisions.

Participants will review key physical concepts behind logging measurements and then examine resistivity and conductivity tools, nuclear and acoustic tools, and geological imaging logs. The course also covers advanced logging technologies and formation testers, cased hole logging tools, and well perforating practices, linking each to basic formation evaluation techniques and integrated subsurface understanding. Emphasis is placed on understanding what the tools really measure, how environmental and operational factors affect the response, and how to use logs together to support petrophysical interpretation, reservoir characterization, and well completion decisions.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

• Review and explain the basic physical concepts that underpin logging measurements, including resistivity, conductivity, radioactivity, and acoustic wave propagation.
• Describe the operating principles, main applications, and limitations of open hole resistivity and conductivity tools.
• Explain the fundamentals of nuclear logging tools (gamma ray, density, neutron, and spectral tools) and their use in lithology, shale volume, and porosity evaluation.
• Describe acoustic logging tools and geological imaging tools and how they are used to evaluate formation properties, fractures, and borehole conditions.
• Identify key advanced logging tools and formation testers and explain how pressure and fluid sampling data support formation evaluation.
• Describe the main cased hole logging tools, including production logging and pulsed neutron tools, and their application in reservoir monitoring.
• Explain the principles of well perforating and how perforation design links to log interpretation and completion objectives.
• Apply basic formation evaluation techniques by combining multiple log measurements for lithology, porosity, saturation, and net pay estimates at a practical level.
• Recognize key log quality control indicators and basic sources of uncertainty in log interpretation.
• Understand how logging data is integrated with geological, petrophysical, and reservoir engineering workflows to support field development decisions.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

• Geologists

• Geophysicists
• Petrophysicists
• Petroleum engineers
• Reservoir engineers
• Drilling engineers

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions, as well as case studies, will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The course will be intensive, practical, and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance learning. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.