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Introduction to rock physics, and petrophysics, diagenesis, Biot Theory, fracture gradients, 3D stress modeling and fractured reservoirs.
Profesionnals with a Scientific background.
Background in Geosciences, petroleum geology or basic Petroleum Engineer knowledge
5 Session
Rock Physics and Petrophysics. What’s the difference?
Hooke’s law, anisotropy and elastic wave velocities
Sedimentary rocks as heterogeneous media
Representative Elementary Volume (REV)
Effective elastic properties
Voigt/Reuss and Hashin-Shtrikman bounds
Modulus-porosity relations for clean sands
Critical porosity and mechanical percolation
Gassmann’s equations and fluid substitution
Fluid properties and mixtures
Velocity-porosity models for shaly sands
Empirical relations between velocity and porosity, clay content, etc.
Properties of sand-clay mixtures
Velocity-porosity relations for shales
Relations between VP and VS
Rock compressibilities and relation of 4D seismic to well testing
Reflection coefficients and AVO
Elastic impedance
Rock physics templates
Effective medium and effective field theories
Velocity-porosity relations for carbonates
Patchy saturation
Squirt flow
Sediment compaction and the state of stress in the Earth
Pore pressure and the concept of effective stress
Poroelasticity
Application to pore pressure prediction
Effect of stress on seismic body waves
Third-order elasticity
Granular media and discrete element methods
Displacement discontinuity methods
Stress sensitivity of sandstones
Stress sensitivity of shales
Stress perturbations around a borehole
Determination of velocity variations around a borehole from advanced sonic logging
Application to wellbore stability
Reservoir geomechanics and stress effects in 4D seismic monitoring
Hydraulic fracture propagation in presence of natural fractures
Seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs
Modeling the response of a fractured reservoir
Rock physics models for fractures
Shales and unconventional reservoirs
Anisotropy of shales
Rock physics modeling of kerogen in organic-rich shales
Effect of anisotropy on AVO
Microseismic and effect of azimuthal anisotropy on propagation of hydraulic fractures
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