This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding and practical field application of integrated core and well logging data for improved reservoir characterization. It focuses on combining data from Routine Core Analysis (RCA) and Special Core Analysis (SCAL) with well logging measurements to enhance reservoir evaluation and decision-making.

Coring and well logging tools provide the most direct and reliable means of determining critical reservoir parameters required for effective reservoir management, field development planning, and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects. The course covers laboratory measurements associated with RCA and SCAL, as well as empirical correlations used to predict key rock properties. Three major categories of well logs—shale evaluation logs, resistivity logs, and porosity logs—are presented and illustrated with real field case examples.

The program addresses coring objectives and methods, and reviews the definitions and measurements of porosity, permeability, fluid saturation, capillary pressure, relative permeability, and wettability. Advanced SCAL techniques and tools—such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), Inductively Coupled Plasma–Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES), and Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)—are also introduced.

In addition, the course presents well logging methods for both clean and shaly reservoirs, along with calibration techniques between core and log data. All datasets are integrated to demonstrate modern reservoir characterization workflows and to compare current industry practices in subsurface evaluation.