Introducing Perceptive Seismic Interpretation

Course curriculum

01
Welcome To The Course
02
Seismic Displays in the 21st Century
03
Getting Started with the Software
04
The Themes Behind PSI
- Chapter Synopsis
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- What is this chapter about?
- Themes
- Developing a Visual Seismic Culture
- Wavefield Reconstruction
- Wavefield Visualization
- Chapter summary
05
Changing Expectations
- First Impressions
06
Example 1: Who Killed Penobscot?
- Chapter Synopsis
- The history of Penobscot
- The scene of the crime
- The case for acquisition footprints
- The case against acquisition footprints
- Who/what did kill Penobscot?
- Who/what can save Penobscot?
- What Penobscot says about visualization?
07
Defining the Problem
- Chapter Synopsis
- The point of Penobscot
- The display as a filter
- The search for subsurface clarity
- Niels Bohr and the Complementarity Principle
- The definable and indefinable properties of seismic
- Wiggle trace properties
- Variable density properties
- Grayscale properties
- Without wholeness there is no clarity!
- Chapter summary
08
Silent (Seismic) Evidence
- Chapter Synopsis
- "The Black Swan" definition of silent evidence
- The seismic definition of silent evidence
- Silent evidence in Penobscot
- Silent evidence in the examples
- Silent evidence in you own data
09
Example 2: Sleipner 4D CO2 Project
- Chapter Synopsis
- How important are amplitudes?
10
W.R. Part 1: The Games We Play
- The course changes focus
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- What does it take to reconstruct the wavefield?
- Why have we never reconstructed the wavefield?
- The games we played in 1966
- The games we played in 1979
- The games we played in 1984
- Toy Story - a new level of CGI
- The quantum leap at the end of the millennium
- Chapter summary
11
W.R. Part 2: The Music Analogy
- Chapter Synopsis
12
W.R. Part 3: Practical Considerations
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13
Example 3: Rockall Trough
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14
Engaging the Senses
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15
Wavefield Visualization
- Chapter Synopsis
16
Example 4: Offshore Netherlands F3 Block
- Chapter Synopsis
17
Stratiscape - Visualizing Geology
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18
Moving Forward - Establishing Base Knowledge
- Chapter Synopsis

Dr. Steven Lynch

Instructor Bio:

Dr. Lynch is the Chief Geoscientist for "The Visual Wavefield Project". He received his B.Sc. in Biophysics (with Distinction) from the University of Guelph in 1975 and his M.Sc. in Geophysics from the University of British Columbia in 1977. Following a 26 year absence from academia, Steve returned to University in 2003 to study seismic visualization and received his PhD. from the University of Calgary in 2008. In the early 2000's, realizing that that our ability to perceive seismic was not keeping pace with our ability to acquire and process it, Steve returned to his biophysical roots and began to study visualization as a science. His research led him to pioneer the field of Perceptive Seismic Interpretation. He now splits his time between developing software for it and teaching courses about it.

Steven Lynch

Chief Geoscientist

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