Discipline: Geology/Geophysics
Level: Junior to Intermediate
Instructor: Dr. Erik Scott
Length: 5 Days
Who Should Attend
Geologists, geophysicists, and engineers who use seismic data for petroleum exploration and/or production.
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
- Understand geology from a variety of structural styles and depositional environments and how they are represented on a seismic line
- Identify elements of the seismic reflectors and how to integrate them into a geologic interpretation
- Create a basic structural and stratigraphic framework from seismic data
ABOUT THE COURSE
This course will cover how to build sub-regional structural and stratigraphic frameworks from seismic data. Through interpretation of 2D seismic profiles from various geologic settings we will reconstruct basin to prospect stratigraphic and structural histories and discuss implications for petroleum systems. Participants will gain an understanding of a variety of structural and stratigraphic settings as expressed on seismic data and the techniques for evaluating them.
Participants are encouraged to bring seismic lines from their current projects to evaluate in class.
Familiarity with seismic data and a basic understanding of fault systems and deposit geometries from a variety of sedimentary environments will be helpful in this course.
COURSE CONTENT
- Intro to seismic and how geology is represented
- Interpreting structural styles
- Extensional
- Compressional
- Inversion
- Seismic response of salt
- Stratigraphic analysis of depositional environments
- Onshore to shelf systems
- Carbonates
- Deep water systems
- Seismic representation of other geologic features