First EAGE Workshop on Surface Logging

12-14 November 2025 | Paris, France

1. Fundamentals of Surface Logging

A comprehensive introduction to the principles, instrumentation, and technology underpinning surface logging, highlighting its crucial role in modern well construction and drilling operations.

2. Drilling Performance

Techniques for evaluating drilling efficiency, detecting formation changes, and identifying lithological variations through surface data, with a focus on optimizing drilling performance and operational effectiveness.

3. Mud Logging Practices

Techniques for evaluating drilling efficiency, detecting formation changes, and identifying lithological variations through surface data, with a focus on optimizing drilling performance and operational effectiveness.

4. Integration of Surface Logging with Subsurface Data

Integrating surface logging data with downhole measurements to enable real-time decision-making during critical drilling operations, enhancing the speed and accuracy of responses.

5. Applications In Reservoir Evaluation & Geochemistry

Leveraging surface logging to estimate key reservoir properties such as porosity, permeability, and fluid content, improving the precision of reservoir characterization and development strategies.

6. Operational Safety and Hazard Identification 

Examining the role of surface logging in the early detection of well control issues, abnormal pressure zones, and loss circulation. By improving safety measures, surface logging mitigates operational risks and enhances overall safety.

8. Energy Transition

Exploring surface logging’s growing relevance as the industry pivots toward more sustainable and diverse energy sources.

9. Case Studies

Showcasing real-world applications of surface logging across diverse environments, including unconventional reservoirs, high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) wells, deepwater drilling, geothermal exploration, and special gas exploration (hydrogen and helium).