SCPRE14

Exploration: From Geology to the Seismic Section

Instructor: Bob Parker
Date: May 7-9, 2008
Max. Attendance: 25 participants
Course Fee: $1350

Venue: TBA

Audience:
This course has been successfully presented to geological and geophysical technicians, field acquisition supervisors, landmen, research scientists, IT personnel, management, administrators and support staff, accountants, and experienced professionals entering the oil and gas industry.

Course Description:
This 3-day course takes the participants through the complete cycle of exploration geophysics. It start with a review of geological principles – the target of the seismic tool. It then looks at seismic acquisition and processing – how the subsurface is imaged. A section on the seismic response to geology examines how these images appear on the seismic section, and looks at pattern recognition as a tool in interpreting both structural and stratigraphic features. The course ends with hands-on interpretation exercises (including some interpretation pitfalls).

Course Outline:
Introduction to geology
Basic seismic acquisition concepts
Data processing concepts
Seismic response to geology
Seismic intepretation

Bob parker spent some seventeen years in the academic world, teaching at all levels from high school to 3rd year university in Canada and the U.K. In 1979 he joined a major oil company as a senior geophysicist and has spent the time since working for various companies in both domestic Canadian and international exploration. He has worked on data sets from every continent, in widely different geological regimes. From 1995 to 2001 he was responsible for co-ordinating and delivering technical training for an international seismic company. In July 2001 he incorporated RPGeoServices Ltd., a provider of technical training and geophysical consulting.