2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation - Virtual Learning
This Gulf Rowad 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course will focus on reflection seismic, one of the fundamental ways of imaging the subsurface from a geological perspective. 2D and 3D seismic data is a major source of information in the oil industry for both onshore and offshore activities.
Recently this type of data has also been used in geothermal energy activities, carbon sequestration in geological reservoirs and wind energy, especially offshore. Other uses include mapping salt structures for use as natural gas reservoirs (gas caverns), delimiting mineral deposits among other activities involving imaging of the subsurface.
This 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course will cover the main concepts underlying the interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data, from its History, the methods of data acquisition, processing, visualization and software. Several mapping exercises will be done using seismic data - faults and horizons - and how they can be used to understand the structure, stratigraphy and geodynamics of a basin.
The perspective of hydrocarbon resources will be addressed through reserve and associated risk calculation exercises.
This Gulf Rowad 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course will highlight:
Seismic acquisition and processing
2D and 3D data visualization
Fault interpretation and structural models
Horizon and stratigraphic interpretation
Petroleum systems, volumetrics and risking
5 Days
1620 Sessions
Starting from USD 2,000
Available Face to Face
Course Methodology
The training course will be based on slide presentations for each module, together with team and individual exercises. There will also be sessions with real exploration examples to get participants a hands-on experience on the usage of seismic data. Exercises and examples include several geodynamic settings and participants will be able to evaluate, quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations.
Course Objectives
At the end of this 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course, you will learn to:
- Understand seismic data acquisition and processing
- Visualize seismic data and develop interpretation capacity
- Interpret and map faults and seismic horizons
- Identify hydrocarbon accumulations using seismic data
- Quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations
Target Audience
This 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course is designed for subsurface professionals who are interested in using seismic interpretation for their work or interact with seismic interpreters in their companies.
This Gulf Rowad 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Petroleum Geologists
- Sedimentologists and stratigraphers
- Petrophysicists
- Basin modellers
- Geophysicists
- Reservoir and drilling engineers
Target Competencies
Organisational Impact
Seismic interpretation is a key tool in the Oil and Gas industry, from early stages of exploration to production. As such the organizational impact of this 2D and 3D Seismic Interpretation training course is reflected in:
- Qualify staff with a key tool for the upstream industry
- Allow staff from different disciplines to have a common understanding of seismic data
- Define company-wide seismic data standards
- Boost staff capacity to correctly identify leads and prospects
- Capacitate staff with skills to quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations
- Refine the communication between geological evaluation and economic evaluation teams
Personal Impact
Seismic is the main source of subsurface data in the oil industry. Any Geoscientist or Engineer will need to at least be aware of its fundaments, uses and limitations. Personal impact includes:
- Improve the knowledge on seismic data, how it is acquired, processed and interpreted.
- Understand how faults, horizons and other features are interpreted and used for hydrocarbon exploration and production
- Develop skills in identifying hydrocarbon accumulations using seismic data.
- Ability to quantify and risk hydrocarbon accumulations
- Communicate more efficiently with other geoscience and engineering disciplines that use seismic data.
- Understand the wonders of geology imaged in the subsurface by seismic data
Course Outline
Day 1
Introduction to Seismic Data
- History of seismic studies
- The seismic method
- Rock properties
- Wave propagation, reflection, and refraction of seismic waves, reflectivity, impedance
- Data acquisition – Land and Marine
- Other geophysical methods
- Gravimetry
- Magnetics
- Electro magnetics
- Seismic data processing overview
- Conventional pre-stack processing and CMP gathers
- Post-stack processing
- Seismic migration, velocity models.
- Calibration methods (well-tie)
- Velocity surveys
- Sonic logs
- Synthetic seismograms
- Vertical Seismic Profiles
Day 2
2D and 3D Seismic Data Basics
- 2D and 3D Seismic Data
- Parameters, visualization, polarity
- Seismic Data Libraries, public, private and licenses
- Software
- 2D and 3D interpretation techniques
- Hard and soft events
- Vertical exaggeration
- Horizontal and Vertical slicing in 3D data
- Seismic horizons – stratal interface, fluid contacts and non-geological horizons
- Quantitative interpretation geophysics
- Acoustic impedance and inversion
- AVO and pseudo-gradient
- RMS amplitude
- Spectral decomposition
- Other methods
Day 3
Faults and Structure Interpretation
- Fault interpretation
- Introduction to fault interpretation
- Structural styles
- Rift basins
- Compressional domains
- Salt tectonics
- Strike-slip faults
- Mapping faults in 2D data
- Faults in each seismic line
- Connecting faults from different seismic lines
- Building fault planes
- Mapping faults in 3D data
- Mapping faults in vertical and horizontal slices
- Building fault planes
- Structural models
- Building a structural model
- Visualization
- Geometry, kinetics, geodynamics
- Palinspastic Reconstructions
Day 4
Horizons and Stratigraphic Interpretation
- Stratigraphic interpretation
- Horizon interpretation techniques
- Horizon attributes
- Continuity and lateral variations
- Unconformities and stratal terminations
- Seismic facies
- Carbonate systems seismic facies
- Siliciclastic systems seismic facies
- Gross depositional environments
- Advanced stratigraphic interpretation
- Wheeler diagrams
- Seismic sequence stratigraphy
Day 5
Petroleum Systems, Volumetrics and Risking
- The petroleum system elements and processes
- Reservoir
- Seal
- Source rock
- Trap
- Timing and migration
- Mapping hydrocarbon accumulations
- Structural traps
- Stratigraphic traps
- Mixed traps
- Volumetrics
- Leads, prospects, reserves, resources
- Volumetric calculation methods
- P10, P50, P90 and mean
- Risking
- Risking methods and software
- Evaluation of CoS, PoS
- Incorporation of Geological risk into economic evaluations
2026 Schedule & Fees
Course Fees Starting From
USD
2,000
| Date | City | Language | Price | Action |
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| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
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| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
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| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
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