Class Schedule and Reading Assignments

Week	Date (MWF)	Lecture Number and Title	Readings	Assignment
1	8/31, 9/1, 9/4	Introduction to coring and well logging; The Logging Environment	Ellis and Singer Chapter 1 Rider M.H., The interpretation of Well logs, Chapters 1 and 2, Wiley and Sons, NY.
2	9/9, 9/11 *(Labor Day: 9/7 no class)*	Selected tools from the Geophysical toolbox	Ellis and Singer Chapter 2 Rider M.H., The interpretation of Well logs, Chapters 1 and 2, Wiley and Sons, NY.
3	9/14, 916, 9/18	Color Theory, VIS Reflectance, nIR Theory and applications	Reflectance Spectra by R. Clark (handout to be provided.)	Grads Select Term project
4	9/21, 9/23, 9/25	Electric Logging: Spontaneous Potential and Resistivity	Ellis and Singer Chapter 3, 4 Rider M.H., The interpretation of Well logs, Chapters 7, Wiley and Sons, NY.
5	9/28, 9/30, 10/2	Nuclear processes	Ellis and Singer Chapter 10 Rider M.H., The interpretation of Well logs, Chapters 7, Wiley and Sons, NY	Exam 1: 10/2
6	10/5, 10/7, 10/9	Active Gamma Methods (Gamma Density)	Ellis and Singer Chapter 12 Chi and Mienert Mar. Geo 131, 57-74, 1996. Bucker and Rybach, Mar. Pet. Geo., 13, 373-375, 1996.	Grads Term Project bibliography
7	10/12, 10/14, 10/16	Passive Gamma Methods (Natural Gamma Decay)	Ellis and Singer Chapter 11 Rider M.H., The interpretation of Well logs, Chapters 7, Wiley and Sons, NY
8	10/19, 10/21, 10/23	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance	Ellis and Singer Chapter 16 Kenyon et al., Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging- Technology for the 21st Century, Oilfield Review, 19-33, Autumn, 1995. Legchenko et al., J. App.Geophy., 50, 21-46, 2000.	Exam 2: 10/23
9	10/26, 10/28, 10/30	Neutron Porosity Logging	Ellis and Singer Chapter 13, 14	Grads Term Project Outline
10	11/2, 11/4, 11/6	Microresistivity	Ellis and Singer Chapter 5,6 Bonner et al., Resistivity while Drilling-Images from the string, Oilfield Review, 4-19, Spring 1996.
11	11/9, 11/13 (Vets day: 11/11 no class)	MWD, LWD, and Offset Drilling	Ellis and Singer Chapter 6, 20
12	11/16, 11/18, 11/20	Magnetic logging	Blum, ODP Physical properties Handbook, Chapter 4, Nov. 1997. Sun and Liu, EPSL 180, 287-296, 2000.	Grads Term Project First Draft
13	11/23, 11,27 (Thksgiving: 11/25 no class)	Multi-sensor core logging	Weber et al., Mar Geo, 136, 151-172, 1997.
14	11/30, 12/2, 12/4	Acoustic logging methods	Ellis and Singer Chapter 17 Rebesco et al., Sed. Geo. 135, 65-74, 2000.
15	12/7, 12/9, 12/11	XRF Elemental Core logging	Richter et al., ODP SR 175 Chapter 13. Jansen and Dupont, ODP SR 175 Chapter 20.	Grads Term Project Final Version
		*End of class sessions*
16 Finals Week	12/16	Cumulative Final Exam McGilvrey Hall Room 311 10:15 - 12:30 p.m. Wed. Dec. 16 (Fall Exam Tables)