Petro-Ed

presents

STRAIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC DATA

Duration: 5 days

Designed for: The course is designed for Exploration and Development Geologists and Managers involved in prospect generation, delineation and production and Geophysicists with little stratigraphic interpretation experience.

Course Outline:

The integration of seismic techniques with stratigraphic principles has added a major dimension to exploration. Commonly referred to as Seismic Stratigraphy this area of contemporary methodology has the determination of lithology from the seismic response as its primary objective, and operates at two levels:

1) The regional concept of Peter Vail and the original group from Exxon using regional seismic lines to interpret stratigraphy and the depositional environment.

2) The derivation of the seismic wavelet for more local stratigraphic interpretation purposes such as pay thickness, porosity, gas saturation and lithology. This includes aspects of thin bed resolution, hydrocarbon indicators and A.V.O. techniques.

This five-day course will cover the principles of both of these techniques and will emphasize the seismic applications rather than the mathematical theory.

By combining the lectures with extensive workshops, the participant will develop a high degree of confidence in interpreting stratigraphy from seismic data.

Course Content:

The Basic Simplicity
The Basic Simplicity
Normal Incidence
Anatomy of A Seismic Section
the Anatomy of A Wavelet
Amplitude, Frequency & Phase
the Convolution Model
Modeling
the Synthetic Seismogram
Resolution & Tuning
Seismic Acquisition
3-d Seismic
Seismic Data Processing
Interpretation
Seismic Stratigraphy
A.V.O

Instructor: Dr. Easton Wren