The main objective of this course is to provide Exploration & Development professionals with the opportunity to develop hands-on experience of various Seismic Reservoir Characterization techniques. It will cover all approaches from fundamental theoretical background to high-level real work information/techniques.

How will this Training Course be presented?

The course will not only presented by showing and interpreting the material in detail, but also the participants will work together using a real data to apply all the workflow and to project their previous knowledge and experience onto the course, they also encouraged to bring their own data so that real working examples can be reviewed and interpreted.

Target Audiece

This course is designed for all Oil industry Technical Professionals, which will cover from fundamental theoretical background to high-level real work information/techniques/workshop.

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Geophysicists
• Geologists
• Geo-Modelers
• Petrophysicists
• Drilling Engineers
• Reservoir Engineers
• Technical Support Personnel
• Team Leaders

Course Agenda

Day One: Introduction & Fundamentals

• What is Rock Physics?
• What is the difference between Rock Physics & Petrophysics?
• What are the tools which help Rock Physics for Quantitative Reservoir Characterization?
• Seismic Waves (Wave Propagation – Wave fronts & Ray-paths for Isotropic/Anisotropic medium– Wave Types – Basic Seismic Principles & Laws).
• Seismic Rock Properties (Elastic Properties – Seismic Properties – Anisotropic Properties).
• Seismic Methods (Seismic Reflection & Seismic Refraction).
• Seismic Wavelet (Seismic Wave Elements – Wavelet Types).
• Seismic data Phase & Polarity Convention.
• Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHI).
• Vertical Resolution, Tuning Thickness & Detectability.
• Lateral Resolution & Fresnel Zone. 

Day Two: 2D/3D/4D Conventional vs. Broadband Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing & Interpretation

• 2D/3D/4D Offshore Conventional & Broadband Seismic data Acquisition.
• Undershooting & Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC).
• NAZ, MAZ, WAZ, RAZ, AAZ & FAZ Surveys.
• Offshore Geo-Hazard Site Survey & Seabed Imaging.
• Bore-Hole Seismic & Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP).
• Convolutional Model of the Earth.
• Seismic Processing Workflow & main concepts.
• Statistical & Deterministic Wavelet Determination.
• Wavelet Extraction Sensitivity Analysis.
• Checkshot (CS) data QC & Velocity Analysis.
• Well to Seismic Tie (Synthetics) Sensitivity Analysis.
• Structural & Stratigraphic Interpretation. 

Day Three: Qualitative/Quantitative Reservoir Characterization

• Full Band-Width Conventional Seismic Attributes & DHI Analysis.
• Complex Trace Attributes.
• Specific Band-Width Spectral Decomposition Analysis.
• Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Color-Blending.
• Spectral Balancing.
• Multi-Attribute Display.
• Depth Conversion using different methods, Velocity Models building & Sensitivity Analysis.
• Statistical & Deterministic Volumetrics / Hydrocarbon-In-Place (HCIIP) estimation.
• Prospect Evaluation & Chance/Probability of Success (COS/POS) determination.
• Risked & Recoverable Hydrocarbon-In-Place (HCIIP) estimation. 

Day Four: AVO, Inversion & Fluid-Lithology Separation

• Evolution of AVO.
• AVO as a Gas Indicator.
• AVO Modelling / Methodology.
• Zoeppritz Equation & Approximations.
• Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO) Analysis.
• Fluid Replacement Model (FRM).
• Biot-Gassmann, Batzle and Wang Fluid Modeling.
• Fluid replacement considerations.
• Rock-Physics Cross Plots & Inversion Feasibility Study.
• Pre-Stack Inversion Analysis.
• Post-Stack Inversion Analysis.
• Elastic Impedance Measurement.
• Extended Elastic Impedance Measurement.
• Fluid & lithology Separation.

Day Five: From Seismic cube to Facies cube to generate Gas-Sand & Water-Sand Geobodies

• Converting Seismic Cube to Inverted Impedance Cube.
• Converting Inverted Impedance cube to Seismic Facies Cube (Gas Sand – Water Sand – Shale /background).
• Generating Gas Sand & Water-Sand Geobodies from Seismic data.
• Geo-Hazard Analysis over proposed well location.
• Optimizing the best Well Location using integrated geophysical tools.