Target audience: the advanced training course is available to individuals who hold (or are currently pursuing) a higher or secondary vocational education in the relevant field, or who have completed professional retraining in the corresponding area.
Studying methods: lecture, seminar, conversation, independent homework, problem solving, calculations, graphing, programming, and group discussion.
After of course, participants will be: to improve professional competencies as reflected in practical abilities:
- to predict the physical properties of rocks at various scales based on their composition and internal structure features;
- to explain the existence of correlations between different physical properties;
- to determine «unmeasurable» physical properties from measured ones;
- to formulate the geometric characteristics of the pore‑fracture space in sedimentary rocks;
- to identify fractured zones in reservoir rocks and determine their characteristics;
- to reconstruct the complete elasticity tensor (or transport properties) of an anisotropic rock from a limited number of physical property measurements, insufficient for applying conventional methods;
- to build a scale‑dependent velocity model of anisotropic reservoir rocks, taking into account the anisotropy of their physical properties, for hydraulic fracturing monitoring.
About course: enhancing the professional competencies of exploration geophysics specialists in applying the theory of effective media (Rock Physics), which enables linking the mineral composition and microstructure of rock with its physical properties (elastic wave velocities, thermal and electrical conductivity, hydraulic permeability) for hydrocarbon reservoir rocks.