Use of Advanced Acoustic Petrophysics in Characterizing Formation Anisotropy – Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs

22 March 2018 – SPWLA Saudi Arabia Chapter held a second luncheon technical event in March by Dr. Philip Tracadas, Global Product Champion for Wireline Acoustics at Halliburton. The topic was on “Use of Advanced Acoustic Petrophysics in Characterizing Formation Anisotropy – Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs’’ where the speaker summarized and discussed formation anisotropy and its importance in petrophysics and petroleum engineering. Applications of Acoustic Petrophysics in formation evaluation such as relating acoustic anisotropy with permeability and resistivity anisotropy was hotly debated and discussed.