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.

Fall 2010 Workshop Announced!

Your Board is at it again -- it's time for another enlightening workshop! Come join us in learning about Shale Petrophysics; click here for more details and to register.

Membership Dues

Membership (or just your memory) lapsed?  Go to our PayPal page and pay for your annual membership dues.  Even better, select the Lifetime option to eliminate the worries entirely.  While you're there, you can also make a reservation for the next luncheon.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 21, 2010. To make your reservations for the luncheon, please use our PayPal page, no later than noon on the Thursday prior to the lunch.

Presentation: Bakken Formation Evaluation using Laboratory Core Data and Advanced Logging Technologies

Abstract: Unconventional reservoirs have come into intense focus for exploration and development of their oil and gas potential. The Bakken Shale is such an unconventional reservoir as are the Bakken’s neighboring reservoirs, the Three Forks dolomite, Sanish mudstone and Lodgepole ...

Speaker: Dick Merkel, Newfield Exploration Company

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