Event Details
• L ight breakfast and lunch provided on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025
• Networking social with appetizers on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Location TBD
•Light breakfast provided on Friday, Feb 21, 2025
•For the training you will connect to the Sharp Reflections cloud via the workstations provided
•Course materials are provided in advance in PDF format; Bring along a digital or hard copy to class
•A training certificate will be issued upon completion
Target Audience: Seismic interpreters who do not routinely work with pre-stack seismic to identify and de-risk prospects.
Day 1: Relating Amplitudes to Elastic Rock Properties
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 10:15 Basic Seismic Reflection Theory
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30- 11:30 From Field Recording to Migrated Offset Gathers
11:30 – 12:30 Amplitude Variation with Angle (AVA)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 AVA Mapping
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:45 Predicting Fluid Fill with AVA Attributes
4:45 – 5:00 Day 1 Wrap Up
Day 2: Beyond Reflectivity Analysis
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 From Interface Amplitudes to Layered Properties
9:45 – 10:15 A Simple Guide to Common Inversion Methods
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 Comparing Colored Inversion to PCube Relative Inversion
11:15 – 12:00 Probabilistic Inversion into Lithology and Fluid Classes
12:00 – 12:30 Day 2 Wrap up
Your Instructor – Bill Shea , CEO and Co Founder at Sharp Reflections
Bill Shea , has a PhD from Texas A&M in structural geology and rock mechanics. He began his career as a research geoscientist for ExxonMobil and Statoil.
While working at Statoil, Bill recognized the immense potential and benefits that high performance computing (HPC) could bring to seismic visualization and interpretation. Together with partners from Fraunhofer ITWM, he embarked on a mission to harness and deliver these advantages to bridge the gap between processing and interpretation geophysics.
PreStack Pro (now Sharp Reflections) was launched commercially in 2010 and is widely recognized as the industry’s premier Big Data platform for seismic analysis
In November 2024 Sharp Reflections was acquired by Calgary’s CMG Group. Sharp Reflections and the CMG team are now hard at work designing a complete subsurface software solution that integrates seismic interpretation, reservoir characterization, and reservoir simulation into one powerful subsurface workflow