This Advanced Seismic Interpretation training course equips participants with interpretation techniques for seismic data, focusing on seismic attributes, sequence stratigraphy, and structural geology. It will guide professionals on how to integrate available data into seismic models, improving the accuracy and success of seismic predictions.
The Energy Training Centre training course will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the seismic interpreter’s role in studies involving post-stack seismic attributes, sequence stratigraphy, seismic geomorphology, vertical Seismic profiles, and hydrocarbon accumulation analysis.
Key highlights include:
- Seismic visual perception and its impact on interpretation
- Geological concepts, sedimentary models, and structural styles
- Introduction to seismic interpretation software
- Depth conversion and various seismic velocity models
This Advanced Seismic Interpretationtraining course focuses on the interpretation of seismic data sets, providing participants with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience on the role of seismic interpreters in the industry.
By the conclusion of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Acquire a solid understanding of a variety of specialized interpretative methods
- Gain hands-on experience with real-world data sets and workflows commonly used in the oil industry, enabling them to carry out tasks independently or supervise others
- Effectively contribute to multi-disciplinary teams by accounting for geophysical inputs
- Achieve proficiency in seismic interpretation techniques
This Advanced Seismic Interpretation training course is evenly divided between the seismic expression of structural styles and seismic stratigraphy. After spending minimal time on acquisition and background theory, participants will be made acutely aware of impedance and resolution and identification of processing errors and how important it is to understand these before interpretation.
The participants will also be introduced to the structural complexity associated with fold and thrust terrains, extensional systems and various types of wrench faulting and salt/mud related deformation.
The Advanced Seismic Interpretation training course is a crucial resource in the Oil and Gas industry, supporting all stages from exploration to production. The impact of this training course on an organization includes:
- Equipping staff with essential tools for the upstream sector
- Fostering a shared understanding of seismic data among staff from various disciplines
- Establishing company-wide standards for seismic data interpretation
- Enhancing staff capabilities in accurately identifying leads and prospects
- Providing staff with the skills to assess and evaluate hydrocarbon accumulations and associated risks
- Improving communication and collaboration between geological evaluation and economic assessment teams
The Advanced Seismic Interpretation training course serves as a vital source of subsurface data in the oil industry. Every Geoscientist or Engineer should have a solid understanding of its fundamentals, applications, and limitations. The personal impact of this course includes:
- Enhancing knowledge of seismic data, including its acquisition, processing, and interpretation
- Understanding how faults, horizons, and other geological features are interpreted and applied in hydrocarbon exploration and production
- Gaining skills to identify hydrocarbon accumulations using seismic data
- Developing the ability to quantify and assess the risks associated with hydrocarbon accumulations
- Improving communication with colleagues in other geoscience and engineering disciplines who rely on seismic data
- Gaining an appreciation for the geological wonders captured by seismic data beneath the Earth's surface
This Advanced Seismic Interpretation training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Geologists
- Geophysicists
- Production Engineers
- Petrophysical Engineers
- Seismic Interpreters
Day One: Introduction and General Overview
- Introduction to seismic acquisition and processing, seismic frequency and its relationship to bed thickness, impedance, detection and resolution. The systematic methodology of seismic interpretation
- Calculating seismic frequency and resolution
- Introduction to compressional tectonics and fold and thrust belts: horses, piggy-back thrusting, duplexes and antiformal stacks, triangle-zones, fault propagation folds, fault bend folds and detachment folds
- Data loading and visualization
Day Two: Seismic Processing, Geology and Scales of Work
- Introduction to Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- Seismic scales
- Sandstone reservoirs
- Carbonates reservoirs
- Well information data loading and Editing
Day Three: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- Seismic facies analysis: external geometries and internal refection configuration
- ABC method of defining seismic facies, reflection patterns, continuity and amplitude
- Environments of disposition and net/gross
- Seismic attributes
- Performing Seismic attributes for Sandstone reservoirs
Day Four: Structural Geology, Seismic Interpretation and Borehole Seismic
- Introduction to time slices, horizon slices and stratal and the advantages/disadvantages of each
- Common seismic attributes and their application to unconventional resource plays such as tight-gas sandstones and fractured shale plays
- Direct hydrocarbon indicators such as flat spots, bright spots and polarity reversals
- Depth Conversion and Vertical Seismic profile
- Seismic facies analysis, well facies analysis
Day Five: Seismic Applications, Final Project – Round Table
- Hydrocarbon systems – clastics
- Hydrocarbon systems – salt-related structures and traps
- Seismic applications in E&P
- Workshop on participant data – real data project
- Questions and answers
