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Instructors: Dr. Mangat R. Thapar
Course Length: 5 days
Course CEUs: 4.0
Course Description
Costing in most cases less than a few pennies per barrel of oil, 3-D seismic surveys can be extremely prudent investments. They not only reduce the risk of drilling exploration and production wells, they can also help to dramatically increase production from existing fields. However, the successful application of a 3-D seismic survey depends strongly on the techniques employed to acquire, process, and interpret the data.
This course provides the basic foundation for 3-D seismic interpretation, and also reveals potential pitfalls. Thorough analysis of a 3-D seismic survey requires a multi-discipline team effort, and this course will benefit all geoscience professionals who utilize 3-D data. Interpretation exercises include 3-D survey design to optimize results, using horizontal slice data in reservoir models, thickness estimation from amplitude of seismic data using a reservoir model, and analysis of seismic wave propagation properties.
Offered as a Public or In-house course.
Who should attend
Interpreters who would like to acquire a basic understanding of 3-D seismic fundamentals, geophysicists, geologists, technical support personnel, seismic processors, exploration and data processing managers, and data acquisition managers.
Course Content
- Overview of 3-D data acquisition and processing
- Principles of 3-D migration
- Horizontal and horizon slices
- 3-D modeling
- 3-D seismic technologies
- Reduced risk using 4-D
- Successful applications of 3-D in E&P
- Geostistical Kriging and variogram
- Anisotropy, 3-D, 3-C, S-waves
- Principles of structural interpretation & stratigraphic
- Application of seismic attributes
- Thickness from amplitude, and frequency
- Reservoir management using 3-d
- Summary of 3-D case histories from around the world
Participants will learn how to:
- Utilize essential procedures in structural and stratigraphic interpretation
- Apply fundamental principles of structural and stratigraphic interpretation
- Use Geo-statistical Kriging
- Use S-waves in fractured reservoir interpretation
- Estimate thin bed thickness with 3-D data
- Make use of reservoir characterization and compartmentalization tools
- Conduct risk analysis of 4-D data
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