Practical Petrophysics

Martin Kennedy is a practicing Petrophysicist now based in Australia. He started work as a Wireline Logging Engineer and has been involved in some aspect of Petrophysics ever since. After leaving the field he spent over twenty years working as a Petrophysicist for the UK Government and three different oil and gas companies before becoming an independent consultant in 2008. He now works for a wide variety of organisations assisting with everything from single well operations to field development and technical assurance. He has worked in most of the major petroleum basins around the world and has covered everything from clean porosity sandstones to fractured basement. Whilst petroleum still takes up the majority of his time, his work increasingly involves so-called New Energy areas like CCUS and Hydrogen. The material in this book and his approach to petrophysical analysis has been shaped by his nearly 40 years in the business. He has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol University and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.

1. Introduction
2. Petrophysical Properties
3. Core and Other Real Rock Measurements
4. Logs Part I: General Characteristics and Passive Measurements
5. Logs Part II: Porosity, Resistivity and Other Tools
6. Introduction to Log Analysis: Shale Volume and Parameter Picking
7. Log Analysis I: Porosity
8. Log Analysis II: Water Saturation
9. Hydrocarbon Corrections
10. Fluid Distribution
11. Permeability Re-visited
12. Complex Lithology
13. Thin Bed Pays: Dealing with the Limitations of Log Resolution
14. Geophysical Applications
15. Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide and other ‘Net-Zero’ applications
16. Fractured Reservoirs
17. High Angle Wells