Quantitative seismic interpretation for reservoir characterization

Introduction 

This course covers fundamentals and advanced approaches of rock physics and various types of seismic data inversion to practical recipes that can be immediately applied to the oil and gas fields. This course presents qualitative and quantitative tools for understanding and predicting the effects of lithology, pore fluid types and saturation, stress and pore pressure, and temperature on seismic acoustic and elastic properties. This course explains comprehensively all the seismic data inversion approaches that can be used to generate/compute the acoustic and elastic properties of the rocks. Then the course will explain workflows and strategies for quantitative seismic interpretation and, suggestions for more effectively employing seismic to-rock properties transforms in reservoir characterization, with emphasis on seismic interpretation for lithology and subsurface fluid detection. The course is recommended for all geophysicists, reservoir geologists, seismic interpreters, and engineers concerned with reservoir characterization, reservoir delineation, hydrocarbon detection, reservoir development and recovery monitoring. The course includes practical sessions using real data for live applications from different basins around the world.

Course outline 

Chapter 1: Basic Principles 

Chapter 2: 3D Seismic Image Enhancement and Resolution Improvement 

Chapter 3: Rock physics analysis and modeling 

Chapter 4: Seismic AVO analysis and modeling

Chapter 5: Post-stack seismic inversion

Chapter 6: Pre-stack seismic inversion

Chapter 7: Stochastic seismic inversion

Chapter 8: 3D Seismic petrophysics for reservoir characterization

Chapter 9: 3D Seismic lithology interpretations / predictions

Assgined instructor 

Dr AHMED HAFEZ SENIOR GEOSCIENTIST 

+15 years experience of seismic interpretation, seismic inversion, reservoir characterization, seismic attribute analysis, geomechanics, sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology for hydrocarbon exploration, prospect generation and fields development for onshore and offshore assets