Integration of Log and Seismic Data for
Exploration, Exploitation and Production

Instructors: Thomas R. Wittick
Course Length:  5 days
Course CEUs:  4.0

Course Description
If you want to increase the credibility and lower the risk of your prospect or project, this seminar is designed just for you.  Engineers, geologists and geophysicists wanting to use “calibrated” seismic data to measure reservoir properties should take this seminar. Learn how to account for the physical differences between acoustic logs (sonic and density logs) and the seismic technique so they can maximize the correlation between log and seismic data.  This seminar teaches you how to edit log data and specify the seismic data processing steps and parameters of 2-D and 3-D data sets to enhance the correlation between log and seismic data.  How do you use techniques which allow the interpreter of log and seismic data to make more accurate estimates of subsurface conditions and reservoir properties? The answers are in this seminar. 

Attendees will learn the value of “calibrated” seismic data and learn to use techniques which are based on calibrated seismic data.  The workshops throughout the seminar will further enhance the participants’ understanding of the use of calibrated seismic data to measure reservoir properties. 

The basic theory and assumptions underlying log data and seismic data are described along with the strengths and weaknesses of each of the data sets. Participants will develop the skills to incorporate these principles and assumptions into their interpretation of the two data sets to make the best analysis of subsurface conditions and they will learn and work with practical techniques of conditioning or editing the two data sets to maximize log and seismic data correlation as well as techniques which calibrate seismic data so the seismic data can be used to measure reservoir properties.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an appreciation of how the physical properties of logging devices and seismic devices influence their measurements
2. Develop an understanding of the editing or conditioning processes that are applied to log and seismic data to enhance their correlation
3. Gain an appreciation of the importance of calibrated seismic data in exploitation and development work
4. Develop an understanding of how synthetic seismograms and seismic trace inversion are used to correlate log and seismic data
5. Gain an understanding of how AVO is used to detect hydrocarbons in the subsurface
   

Who should attend
Geologists, geophysicists, engineers, log analysts and exploration managers, engaged in oil and gas exploration, exploitation and development.

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