Università Roma Tre

Part I – INTRODUCTION
• Introduction to geology of oil exloration
• The role of seismic and well data in oil exploration
• The reflection seismic

Part II – SEISMIC ACQUISITION
• Seismic acquisition, onshore and offshore, 2D and 3D.
• Seismic source and receiver
• Geometry of reflection seismic profiles

Part III – SEISMIC PROCESSING
• Introduction
• Fundamentals of seismic processing
• Processing in time and depth domain

Part IV – WELLS AND LOGS
• Introduction
• Well logs: depth and resolution, Caliper log, Gamma Ray log, Sonic Log, Density log, Neutron Log, porosity and lithology
• Interpretation and correlation of well logs
• Checkshot (CS), Vertical Seismic Profile (VSP) and synthetic seismograms

Part V – 2D and 3D SEISMIC INTERPRETATION
• Fundamentals of seismic interpretation
• Introduction to seismic sequence stratigraphy
• Acustic models and seismic facies
• Interpretation of seismic horizons and faults
• Building of structural maps
• Use of seismic attributes
• Integration of seismic well data
• Elements of time-depth conversion

- Practical seismic interpretation by Michael E. Bradley (Editor)
- Interpretation of Three-Dimensional Seismic Data, by Alistair R. Brown. Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- Basic Well Log Analysis, by Steven Henderson and Neil Hurley, AAPG Methods in Exploration Series 16