| CENPET strives
to be the focal point of all Formation Evaluation research & development at
CSM, and has therefore close working relationships with the departments of Geology
and Petroleum Engineering. This often results in co-advising students, and recent
examples are : Dr. N. F. Hurley, Geology
Dr. C. Vankirk,
Petroleum Eng.
Dr. R. Graves, Petroleum Eng. Within the
department of Geophysics there is close cooperation and sharing of students with
the Reservoir Characterization Project, and the Center for Rock & Fluid Research
led by respectively : Dr. T. Davis, Geophysics
Dr. M. Batzle,
Geophysics Since 1999 a total of 12 students supported by CENPET
have graduated. For details one is referred to the theses
and alumni sections. Many research
projects are related to invasion of mud-filtrate into the formation:
"
Using borehole radar embedded in the drill string to measure invasion depth.
" Using shallow reading logs to determine the geometry of invasion profiles.
" Developing computer code that corrects logs for sloping invasion profiles.
" Matching calculated and simulated invasion profiles to find permeability.
" Modeling resistivity logs to measure cleat density in coal be methane fields,
and fracture density in oil fields.
" Modeling sonic logs to obtain a
universal response function, and to access the effect of near borehole fractures. In
addition, projects are underway to define objective measures to find bed boundaries
using irregularity indicators, and on applying geophysical techniques such as
frequency decomposition of acoustic logging wave trains to get more accurate bed
thicknesses and velocity profiles. To ensure that the modeling work and novel
log interpretation techniques are valid, the data of the Rulison tight gas sand
field is used by several students.
Max Peeters.
(last
updated March 2006) | 
