Petrophysics: A practical guide / Петрофизика: Практическое руководство

This book has been written for those studying petroleum geology or engineering, for whom the role of the petrophysicist can become a lucrative and satisfying career. The handbook will be equally useful to students and practioners of environmental science and hydrogeology, where the understanding of groundwater flow is an important part of their technical remit. There is a comprehensive reference list included in the handbook that will cover some of the historic developments in petrophysics over the last 70 years; the book could bear the subtitle ‘from Archie to anisotropy’ and still include all the basic ideas captured in its pages. The handbook is subtitled ‘a practical guide’, and that is what I have set out to try and do: look at the pitfalls and obstructions encountered in any reservoir evaluation study and suggest alternative solutions and works-around.

It has also been developed in response to the needs of many younger colleagues who have not yet had the opportunities and experiences of an older generation of petroleum geologists and engineers. Most experienced petrophysicists in the industry have developed their own routines and preferred solutions to specific interpretation problems, and some of these different

ideas will be reviewed for specific types of reservoir and the fluids they contain. Specialist petrophysicists and log analysts steeped in the details of wireline tool physics can sometimes lose the essential requirement of an interpretation, which is to provide usable input for some other static or dynamic model of a hydrocarbon reservoir. <...>