GL5052: Seismic Reflection Processing, Imaging And Quantitative Interpretation

GL5052: SEISMIC REFLECTION PROCESSING, IMAGING AND QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58

Course Overview

The student will be trained on the most important essentials of reflection seismics: The theory of seismic waves and their application to data processing both in pre-stack (CMP processing, velocity analysis, stacking, migration) and post-stack environments. Practical exercises involving processing of seismic reflection data will form a significant part of the course with the aim of familiarising students with the key software packages.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	First Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr David Lacopini

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

GL Geology And Petroleum Geology (GL) (Studied)
Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

I. Pre-stack processing
1. Reformatting seismic data; assigning geometry to seismic trace headers
2. Trace gathering
3. Velocity analysis: NMO stretching, muting, making semblance, coherance maps
4. Comparing semblance maps, picking a semblance map; picking reflection events
5. Normal move-out correction; stacking CMP gathers
6. Editing: Killing and muting traces
7. Testing and applying deconvolution (deterministic and statistical: wavelet amplitude and phase shaping, predictive deconvolution) band pass filtering
8. Residual statics correction, velocity analysis iteration
9. Multiple suppression (FK, FX, Radon-domian, Tua-p and SRME)
10. Migration: principles, methods (Kirchloff, FD, FK), Post- and pre- stack time and depth migration
11. Forwarding modelling migration: Beam, Gaussian Beam, reverse time migration, anistrophy beam/reverse time migration
12. post-stack time migration
13. challenges of 4D seismic processing
II. Post-stack image processing and quantitative seismic interpretation
1. AVO: model examples, comparison of methods, anistrophy; time-migrated versus depth-migrated seismic suitability for AVO and seismic inversion
2. Pre-conditioning noise cancellation methods; filter (diffusive, edge preserving, dip-azi steering filter, structural oriented filters); semblance, variance and structurally oriented semblances and their uses; complex attributes and their application for mapping seismics; cross-plotting attributes, volume blending, geobodies, building seismic facies models
3. Inversion modelling: comparing deterministic inversion of P, Vp/Vs and probabilistic approaches.

Contact Teaching Time

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Teaching Breakdown

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