Home of the Denver Well Logging Society

Welcome to the DWLS website! Here you'll find the current (and past) newsletters for the chapter, as well as information on our activities. Please feel free to use the contact links in the menu above if you have questions about the chapter.

If you do any log interpretation at all, you need to check out the Historical Chart Books on CD-ROM that has been made available by the DWLS. Special thanks to Bob Cluff for making this possible.

Another valuable resource, made available by the Phil Nelson of the USGS, is A Catalog of Porosity and Permeability from Core Plugs in Siliciclastic Rocks.

Next Luncheon Meeting

The next meeting will be at 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2008. To make your reservations for the luncheon, please contact Eleice Wickham (via email) or call her at 303-573-2781, no later than noon on the Thursday prior to the meeting.

Presentation: Advanced Applications of Sonic Data in Anisotropic Rocks

Abstract: Sonic anisotropy, defined as the variation in slowness as measured in different directions for a rock sample, is common in many sedimentary formations. Sonic anisotropy is broadly characterized in two end-member categories: intrinsic and stress induced anisotropy. Intrinsic ...

Speaker: Peter Kaufman and Shannon Higgins, Schlumberger - Geomechanics Domain

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