ADVANCED SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY
Location: Houston, Tx
Dates: May 06-08, 2019
Discipline: Geophysics
Level: Specialized
About the course
This is a very rigorous, three-day course with problem solution oriented, hands on workshop exercices including significant group discussion and presentation. You will learn how to make seismic modeling-interpretation judgments as a basis for seismic-facies and reflection character analysis. Case studies for exploration and development incorporate 2D and 3D seismic data with well data selected from around the world.
Audience
Exploration geoscientists who have a working knowledge of basic seismic stratigraphy and want to improve their exploration and development skills.
The course will teach you how to:
Evaluate rock-fluid information from wavelet analysis (frequency, velocity, Q. seismic attributes, and AVO)
Understand the strengths and weaknesses of geovalidation using and misusing synthetics, seismic inversion, and VSP
Determine fault mechanical stratigraphy through proper interpretation of fault imaging
Understand the differences, weaknesses, and strengths of both the Vail with the Galloway sequence paradigms and when to optimally employ them
Develop sea level curves from micropaleontology
Construct detailed seismic facies maps and understand their relationship to Walter's law
Classify deltas based upon their seismic characteristics
Differentiate basin floor fan facies and parasequence sets
Interpret clastic and carbonate depositional system responses to allocyclic and autocyclic processes and the effects upon reservoir architecture and seal potential
Optimally interpret parasequence set fairways for exploration
Geophysically characterize reservoirs for optimizing development
Course Description:
Review of seismic stratigraphy objectives
Comparison of “Vail” and “Galloway” approaches to sequence stratigraphy
Shallow water siliciclastic sequences
Deep water siliciclastic sequences
Carbonate sequences
Integrating high resolution micropaleontology and seismic
Time-depth relationships
Fault modeling – creating robust fault geometries
Application of Waveform Analysis (amplitude, phase and frequency, velocity)
Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO; indication of lithologies, fluids, porosities and pressures)
Geovalidation: Synthetics, Seismic Inversion and VSP
3 days
Number of Participants: Max 20
Advanced Seismic Stratigraphy / Vitor Abreu, Ph.D., Geologist
Courses are administered at the Preffered Bank Building in the Energy Corridor, hotels near by and many restaurants to choose from.