2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation

Seismic Interpretation for the Oil and Gas, Geothermal, Mining,
Environmental and Other Industries

2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation

Scheduled Dates

Classroom

29 Jul - 02 Aug 2024 Istanbul - Turkey $5,950 RESERVE A SEAT
11 - 15 Nov 2024 Dubai - UAE $5,950 RESERVE A SEAT
06 - 10 Jan 2025 Dubai - UAE $5,950 RESERVE A SEAT

Online

29 Jul - 02 Aug 2024 Online $3,950 RESERVE A SEAT

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Why Choose this Training Course?

This PetroKnowledge 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course will focus on reflection seismic, one of the fundamental ways of imaging the subsurface from a geological perspective. 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation data is a major source of information in the oil industry for both onshore and offshore activities.

Recently this type of data has also been used in geothermal energy activities, carbon sequestration in geological reservoirs and wind energy, especially offshore. Other uses include mapping salt structures for use as natural gas reservoirs (gas caverns), delimiting mineral deposits among other activities involving imaging of the subsurface.

This 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course will cover the main concepts underlying the interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data, from its History, the methods of data acquisition, processing, visualization and software. Several mapping exercises will be done using seismic data - faults and horizons - and how they can be used to understand the structure, stratigraphy and geodynamics of a basin.

The perspective of hydrocarbon resources will be addressed through reserve and associated risk calculation exercises.

This PetroKnowledge training course will highlight:

  • Seismic acquisition and processing
  • 2D and 3D data visualization
  • Fault interpretation and structural models
  • Horizon and stratigraphic interpretation
  • Petroleum systems, volumetrics and risking

What are the Goals?

At the end of this 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course, you will learn to:

  • Understand seismic data acquisition and processing
  • Visualize seismic data and develop interpretation capacity
  • Interpret and map faults and seismic horizons
  • Identify hydrocarbon accumulations using seismic data
  • Quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations

Who is this Training Course for?

This PetroKnowledge training course is designed for subsurface professionals who are interested in using seismic interpretation for their work or interact with seismic interpreters in their companies.

This 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Petroleum Geologists
  • Sedimentologists and stratigraphers
  • Petrophysicists
  • Basin modellers
  • Geophysicists
  • Reservoir and drilling engineers

How will this Training Course be Presented?

The training course will be based on slide presentations for each module, together with team and individual exercises. There will also be sessions with real exploration examples to get participants a hands-on experience on the usage of seismic data. Exercises and examples include several geodynamic settings and participants will be able to evaluate, quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations.

Organisational Impact

Seismic interpretation is a key tool in the Oil and Gas industry, from early stages of exploration to production. As such the organizational impact of this course is reflected in:

  • Qualify staff with a key tool for the upstream industry  
  • Allow staff from different disciplines to have a common understanding of seismic data
  • Define company-wide seismic data standards
  • Boost staff capacity to correctly identify leads and prospects
  • Capacitate staff with skills to quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations
  • Refine the communication between geological evaluation and economic evaluation teams

Personal Impact

Seismic is the main source of subsurface data in the oil industry. Any Geoscientist or Engineer will need to at least be aware of its fundaments, uses and limitations. Personal impact includes:

  • Improve the knowledge on seismic data, how it is acquired, processed and interpreted.
  • Understand how faults, horizons and other features are interpreted and used for hydrocarbon exploration and production
  • Develop skills in identifying hydrocarbon accumulations using seismic data.
  • Ability to quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations
  • Communicate more efficiently with other geoscience and engineering disciplines that use seismic data.
  • Understand the wonders of geology imaged in the subsurface by seismic data

Daily Agenda

Day One: Introduction to Seismic Data
  • History of seismic studies
  • The seismic method
    • Rock properties
    • Wave propagation, reflection, and refraction of seismic waves, reflectivity, impedance
    • Data acquisition – Land and Marine
  • Other geophysical methods
    • Gravimetry
    • Magnetics
    • Electro magnetics 
  • Seismic data processing overview
    • Conventional pre-stack processing and CMP gathers
    • Post-stack processing
    • Seismic migration, velocity models. 
  • Calibration methods (well-tie)
    • Velocity surveys
    • Sonic logs
    • Synthetic seismograms
    • Vertical Seismic Profiles
Day Two: 2D and 3D Seismic Data Basics
  • 2D and 3D Seismic Data
    • Parameters, visualization, polarity
    • Seismic Data Libraries, public, private and licenses
    • Software
  • 2D and 3D interpretation techniques
    • Hard and soft events
    • Vertical exaggeration
    • Horizontal and Vertical slicing in 3D data
    • Seismic horizons – stratal interface, fluid contacts and non-geological horizons 
  • Quantitative interpretation geophysics
    • Acoustic impedance and inversion
    • AVO and pseudo-gradient
    • RMS amplitude
    • Spectral decomposition
    • Other methods
Day Three: Faults and Structure Interpretation
  • Fault interpretation
    • Introduction to fault interpretation
  • Structural styles
    • Rift basins
    • Compressional domains
    • Salt tectonics
    • Strike-slip faults
  • Mapping faults in 2D data
    • Faults in each seismic line
    • Connecting faults from different seismic lines
    • Building fault planes
  • Mapping faults in 3D data
    • Mapping faults in vertical and horizontal slices
    • Building fault planes
  • Structural models
    • Building a structural model
    • Visualization
    • Geometry, kinetics, geodynamics
    • Palinspastic Reconstructions
Day Four: Horizons and Stratigraphic Interpretation
  • Stratigraphic interpretation
    • Horizon interpretation techniques
    • Horizon attributes
    • Continuity and lateral variations
    • Unconformities and stratal terminations 
  • Seismic facies
    • Carbonate systems seismic facies
    • Siliciclastic systems seismic facies
    • Gross depositional environments 
  • Advanced stratigraphic interpretation
    • Wheeler diagrams
    • Seismic sequence stratigraphy
Day Five:  Petroleum Systems, Volumetrics and Risking
  • The petroleum system elements and processes
    • Reservoir
    • Seal
    • Source rock
    • Trap
    • Timing and migration
  • Mapping hydrocarbon accumulations
    • Structural traps
    • Stratigraphic traps
    • Mixed traps
  • Volumetrics
    • Leads, prospects, reserves, resources
    • Volumetric calculation methods
    • P10, P50, P90 and mean 
  • Risking
    • Risking methods and software
    • Evaluation of CoS, PoS
    • Incorporation of Geological risk into economic evaluations

Certificate

  • On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.

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