Geological Core Analysis

Dr Vahid Tavakoli is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Petroleum Geology from the University of Tehran in 2011. Since 2012, he has been a member of the faculty in Petroleum Geology. From 2003 to the present, he has been working on core analysis of Iranian reservoirs. His particular research interests are reservoir characterisation using cores and wireline log data. He also has published over 40 research papers on reservoir characterisation, sea-level change, the geochemistry of reservoir rocks, and log analysis. He has been the team leader of several core analysis projects, and is currently heading an Iranian-Swedish project on Holocene core analysis awarded to him by the Swedish Research Council.

• Core Analysis: an Introduction.- Preparing for Analysis.- Microscopic Studies.- Macroscopic Studies.- Geochemical Analysis.- Rock Typing.