..., Schlumberger Copyright 2022, held jointly by the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) and the submitting authors. This paper was prepared for presentation at the SPWLA 63rd Annual Logging Symposium held in Stavanger, Norway, June 10-15, 2022. Herron, 2000; Herron et al., 2002). All...

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... production data in our case studies. Fluid Dynamics development well Herron geochemical log spwla 60 effective permeability Upstream Oil & Gas formation tester permeability measurement Symposium workflow estimation k-lambda model pretest permeability flow in porous media absolute...

...) with knowledge of mineral endpoints (e.g., Table1; Herron and Matteson, 1993; Herron et al., 2014). Herron et al. (2014) have published results showing how this approach can produce log-based mineralogy results in good match with a core measured mineralogy reference. Table 1. Elemental composition of typical...

... inherent to log interpretation in organic-rich formations. log analysis machine learning Reservoir Characterization Artificial Intelligence concentration organic-rich mudrock porosity Upstream Oil & Gas kerogen property organic matter mineralogy thermal maturity well logging Herron...

... source rock or equivalents elsewhere in the region). log analysis lateral porosity Computation Upstream Oil & Gas assessment bitumen evaluation well logging pilot well maturity thermal maturity kerogen Reservoir Characterization Herron spwla 59 mineralogy Symposium...

..., completion, and production decisions. FTIR provides this analysis, with an accuracy that is consistently superior to industry XRD. shale gas Herron concentration laboratory complex reservoir Symposium quantitative mineral analysis accuracy mineralogy elemental concentration shale oil...

... (SpectroLith*, Herron and Herron 1996a, 1996b). This provided better control on clay volume and a better clay correction on neutron-density data for porosity and gas volume. However, the total clay volume estimates from SpectroLith in the overburden section exhibited variations both vertically along the well...

...1 APPLICATION AND QUALITY CONTROL OF CORE DATA FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF ELEMENTAL SPECTROSCOPY LOG INTERPRETATION Susan Herron, Michael Herron, Iain Pirie, Pablo Saldungaray, Paul Craddock, Alyssa Charsky, Marina Polyakov, Frank Shray, Ting Li, Schlumberger Copyright 2014, held jointly...

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... be converted into minerals, then the properties of the minerals can be used to aid computation of petrophysical parameters such as porosity and water saturation. An early spectroscopy logging procedure was named and trademarked ECS (Elemental Capture Spectroscopy) by Schlumberger (Herron and Herron, 1996). ECS...

.... Recording gamma ray count rate as well as gamma ray energy allows one to estimate the relative abundance of specific elements. Weight percent of elements such as silicon, calcium, iron, and sulfur can be used to quantify quartz, carbonates, clay, evaporites, and heavy minerals (Herron and Herron, 1996...

...SPWLA 53rd Annual Logging Symposium, June 16 20, 2012 1 A NEW CAPTURE AND INELASTIC SPECTROSCOPY TOOL TAKES GEOCHEMICAL LOGGING TO THE NEXT LEVEL R. J. Radtke, Maria Lorente, Bob Adolph, Markus Berheide, Scott Fricke, Jim Grau, Susan Herron, Jack Horkowitz, Bruno Jorion, David Madio, Dale May...

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... work, transforms have been derived to convert these relative elemental yields to elemental concentrations and lithology (Herron et al., 1996). Formation grain characteristics such as grain density, grain photoelectric factor, grain sigma, and grain neutron response can then be computed from...

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... structure, usually present as hydroxyl radicals (OH The formulas used include the trace elements boron, gadolinium, thorium and uranium previously determined and documented in detail by Herron and Matteson (1993). Specific formulas were not used for K-feldspar (orthoclase), Na-plagioclase (albite) and Ca...

... in clastics based on improved clay and carbonate volumes and 5) provided chemostratigraphy information for enhanced geologic correlation and reservoir modeling. well logging information Herron cased well porosity carbonate Upstream Oil & Gas gamma ray evaluation log analysis concentration...

... resistivities in order to achieve a satisfactory interpretation. These problems are largely eliminated by using Qv directly. well logging Clavier shale Herron perfect shale model conductivity mineralogy log analysis total porosity spwla 31st Resistivity interpretation abundance equation...

... wells. The derived permeability logs show good agreement with air permeabilities measured on core samples. Permeabilities ranged over more than six orders of magnitude; in the California well the range extended over four orders of magnitude. well logging Upstream Oil & Gas Herron...