
Master advanced seismic data processing from field to stacked data, covering deconvolution types including inverse, filtering, static corrections, quality control, 3D migration, velocity and frequency analysis, and multiple attenuation.
Explore seismic data resolution and limitations, detailing vertical and lateral resolution, the resolvable limit and minimum separation of reflectors, and how velocity and frequency affect detection.
Explore digitisation and sampling in time and space for seismic data, from analog recording and amplification to analog-to-digital conversion and multiplexed data, enabling advanced 3D seismic data processing.
Advance seismic data processing by applying refraction statics, covering 3D and 2D approaches, first breaks, travel times, weathering velocity, and iterative velocity model refinement for accurate static corrections.
Tomographic statics derive a near-surface velocity model from first-arrival travel times and compute static time corrections to address long-wavelength velocity and elevation variations.
Explains horizon-based statics in advanced seismic data processing, showing how flattening with a shallow horizon corrects deep texture and preserves structural features.
Explore multiple attenuation as a core step in seismic data processing, distinguishing primaries from various multiples and applying velocity-based separation, redundancy, and physical modelling to subtract noise.
Apply correlation based pattern recognition to attenuate multiples after stacking in seismic data, using knowledge of the generator and mechanism to estimate and remove water bottom multiples, yielding clearer primaries.
Explore an end-to-end seismic data processing sequence, from resampling and divergence correction to spiking, ground roll attenuation, random noise suppression, velocity analysis, residual statics, migration, and post-stack improvements.
Programs are usually used in a processing sequence and are selected from a library of several hundred programs.
The seismic data processing course provided a step-by-step breakdown ranging from field data to the stacked data used by the interpreter.
This course will cover signal processing, sampling, and resampling in order to ensure optimum data quality. The mathematics of seismic data processing, Fourier Transformation will be presented. This will be followed by the most important steps details of seismic data processing, then deconvolution types will be discussed in detail including inverse Q filtering. Refraction statics steps with full details and quality control examples will be presented in detail with 3D examples. Apparent an-isotropic move-out will be presented, several methods of multiple attenuation will be covered including the new techniques, radon, and high-resolution radon. The Kirchhoff summation and finite-difference migration methods will be discussed. The participants will then learn how to build an optimum processing sequence, in order to obtain the best data quality using the latest techniques. Attribute analysis will be also included in this course to help the interpreters optimize the processing sequence.
Successful processing requires selecting the appropriate programs and parameters for a given set of data. Several diagnostic programs can be used to reveal details – velocity and frequency content, for example, which help in the choice of data enhancement programs and their parameters. Velocity analysis, frequency analysis, and aut-ocorrelation are frequently used and will be discussed.