ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at methods for petroleum, mineral exploration, engineering applications, environmental assessments, and several other lesser applications. It provides some of the data available from various sources and examines some of the newer methods and more exotic methods in Non-hydrocarbon Methods of Geophysical Formation Evaluation, a companion volume to the text. The background information allows us to specify the initial suite of measurements to be made on the project and the amount of time and cost needed to do them, budget core amounts, and plan for laboratory use. Correlation of the log response with the core and cuttings materials identifications is vital to the process of formation evaluation. The core sequence, cuttings sequence, and most of the geophysical log tracings will reflect, within reasonable limits, the actual formation sequence of the zones and beds. Probably the best known quantitative applications of formation evaluation are for evaluating hydrocarbon occurrences.
