Petroleum Geosciences Training Courses > Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation in Different Basin Settings (Passive, Extensional, Convergent & Oblique)

About this Training Course

Comprising 5 full-day sessions, this intermediate to advanced level course is specifically designed for senior exploration geoscientists currently active in hydrocarbon play and prospect mapping, to optimise conceptual geological input into their technical evaluation.

The course focuses on seismic stratigraphic analysis in different basin settings – i.e., passive, convergent, extension and oblique – in order to construct a coherent geological story line, underpinning hydrocarbon play and prospect evaluation.

The course is largely based on seismic stratigraphic case histories and exercises, with the support of seismic, well log and outcrop examples.

Through short, focused presentations and a series of industry case history-based examples and exercises, participants will learn to optimise conceptual geoscience input into technical subsurface analysis. This will help to produce coherent geological subsurface interpretations for use in Play-based, Prospect and Appraisal evaluations.

This course is intended for senior geoscientists with more than five years of work experience, with a background in play and/or prospect evaluation and experience in seismic interpretation.

  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

Participants will be exposed to short lectures throughout the 5 days, followed by hands-on individual and team exercises in a variety of geological settings. “Let the data tell their story” is a key recurring theme in this course.

Your expert course leader has 38 years of experience as Exploration Geologist for Shell globally, with field experience in a/o Egypt, NW Borneo, MENA, China, Madagascar, North Sea, Oman and The Netherlands (Shell EP Research and Training Centre in Rijswijk). He has strong evaluation and project lead skills in Play-based Exploration, Prospect Maturation, Opportunity Screening and NFE / Appraisal disciplines. He developed key geoscience skills in Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy as well as Reservoir Characterization, including sedimentology and diagenesis. He has extensive supervisory, teaching, and coaching experience as well as a strong interest in Geoscience (Depositional Systems, Regional and Reservoir Geology) and Petroleum Geology Learning.

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Good training course! The trainer delivered this course in a nice pace that is easy to follow

Geologist, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd

Course is well delivered and examples are definitely relevant to the Oil and Gas industry

Explorationist, Brunei Shell Petroleum

I liked the training technique used to introduce depositional systems and both their log and seismic signatures, combined with discussions on modern environments and doing exercises

The course is the best I have attended in understanding basin architecture using depositional environmental models, seismic and well data

An excellent course and well presented. Provided a practical grasp of the sequence stratigraphic concepts and skills to understand depositional systems and apply in hydrocarbon exploration