During hydrocarbon accumulation, conditions vastly experienced by a certain formation should

be evaluated or tested. Formation evaluation is an organized way by which we judge the different
states of the given formation if it can be a potential reservoir for oil and gas recovery. It identifies
whether the rock formation will be a commercial oil or just a dry hole. Various tests will be terminated
for a good oil production. The log is the data that we received from the extending range of formation.
It helps us to make an easier decision if a specific reservoir can produce enough amount of oil for the
continuous progress. Geologists, together with petroleum engineers hold the responsibilities in
considering which formation could be a reservoir. Engineers safely scrutinize the drill cuttings brought
into the surface. Moreover, petroleum engineers maintain the standard situation of the testing by
calibrating the samples. They provide the series of actions needed for the evaluation and the cost of the
operation. Although technologies are in its extent of improving, engineers are in their way in
innovating equipments to have an economically sustainable and environmentally adaptable drilling
and evaluating process.
Coring is often the process and considered as the foundational part of testing numerous
formations. Usually, coring also differ in such ways. Different methodology and equipment are needed
for acquiring core samples; according to depth of the formation and cost of procedures. Samples are
gathered by creating a borehole, a drilled hole in the crust of the earth. Core barrel are brought
downward to take the samples, but exactly like any other formation evaluation tools, coring cannot
precisely give exact data because the coring are so much affected by the process. Properties of the
samples are also tested and recorded in the log, giving information about the permeability, porosity
and fluid saturation of the formation. The size, temperature and pressure of the rock formation should
also be accurately determined. Once identified, geologists will correlate the porosity and permeability
of the formation from the other well. The information we gathered from different procedures helps us
to decide if we should abandon or complete the drilling of the well.
Logs also have different types: mud logging, wireline logging, porosity logs and electric logs. In
a helpful manner, they can all possibly record sufficient data being collected in the operation. These
logs are also included in many of the tools that we can use in formation evaluation. Mud Logging is
the process by which we use drilling fluid in determining the properties of the formation. The mud is
already the circulated drilling fluid and drilling pieces are evaluated by the drilling engineers. Wireline
logging is collecting data by lowering strings in the borehole and informations are detected by the
sensors in the surface.
 In such reasons, various tests, measurements and data collection, formation evaluation is indeed
important. It gives us the theoretical and scientific calculations to basically study the formation and
continue the drilling. In spite the fact that the evaluation of the formation is really technically
challenging, the work we will provide will always be worth it. Formation evaluation is important in a
way that it is the fundamental aspect in petroleum system.