INTRODUCTION: Hydrocarbons in the subsurface -- The history of mud logging -- Modern mud logging -- In closing -- PETROLEUM GENERATION: A short lesson in chemistry basics -- Origins of petroleum -- Environments of deposition -- Basin sedimentation -- Chemical maturation -- Summing up -- PETROLEUM ACCUMULATION: Primary migration -- Reservoir structure -- Reservoir flow -- Final thoughts -- ROTARY DRILLING: The drilling rig -- The drill string -- The drill bit -- Drilling fluids -- Coring -- FLOWLINE GAS ANALYSIS: Basic mud logging -- Mud circulation -- Gas sampling -- The vacuum system -- Gas detection -- System standardization -- The last word -- THE FORMATION GAS SHOW: Hydrocarbons in the mud stream -- Gas at surface -- Gas logging -- The end point -- LITHOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS: Sample protocol -- Cuttings samples -- Core samples -- Petrophysical analysis -- Mud tracer tests -- Ending it all -- HYDROCARBON EVALUATION AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS: Hydrocarbon gas analysis -- Cuttings evaluation -- Wellsite geochemistry -- Oil-based mud developments -- The swan song -- DRILLING ENGINEERING LOGGING: Enhanced mud logging services -- Drilling data acquisition -- Drilling data analysis -- Drilling data transmission -- The sting -- DOWNHOLE MEASUREMENT WHILE DRILLING-MWD: Real-time and near-real-time logging -- Downhole transmission methods -- Downhole sensors -- MWD surface receiving systems -- MWD service configuration -- The envelope, please -- BASIC MUD LOG EVALUATION: The mud log worksheet -- The mud log -- Special log forms -- Mud logging reports -- Summing it up -- GEOPRESSURE AND DRILLING OPTIMIZATION LOGS: Geopressure logging -- Drilling optimization -- Mud logging geopressure parameters -- Circulation system geopressure parameters -- Pressure logs -- Drilling cost log -- Well progress log -- Closing it out -- INTEGRATED FORMATION EVALUATION: Data sources -- Data integration -- Mud log data -- Numerical methods in mud log analysis -- The very last word (almost).
