o Wellsite operations coring and core handling

o An overview of rig-site coring, core handling, core stabilisation and core transportation best practices.
Client Implications:
Overview of wellsite practices and important steps to ensure value of information from core is not eroded.

Routine core analysis plugging, cleaning, drying, basic measurements

o An overview of the workflow once the core arrives in the laboratory, covering plugging, cleaning, drying, and basic measurements.
Client Implications:
o Attendees learn how to tailor the core analysis programme to different rock types to ensure maximum value is attained.

o Wettability & Capillarity fundamental principles and oilfield impact, capillary pressure

o Wettability and capillarity

o Laboratory measurement methods

o How to link first-principle concepts to reservoir behaviour

o Data acquisition aims, and model build decisions

o Electrical properties cementation exponent, resistivity index fundamentals

o Introduction to electrical core analysis laboratory measurements including best practice and common pitfalls.
Client Implications:
o How to gain an awareness of foundational concepts and laboratory measurement approaches.

o Relative Permeability fundamental principles and measurement methods

o Introduction to the first-principle concepts influencing fluid

o Flow in porous media and how relative permeability is measured.

o Client Implications:
o Armed with an understanding of the foundation concepts
o How to interrogate existing models and workflows

Core Analysis Workflow An end to end overview of a typical core analysis study

o An overview of the end to end core analysis workflow and the roles and responsibilities of a project owner and key stakeholders.

o Client Implications:
Attendees are armed with information to help them manage a core analysis study at a vendor laboratory.