Instructor:          Gary Mavko, Ph.D., Stanford University

Dates:                 Tuesday - Wednesday, January 27-28, 2009, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

 Location:        707 Seventeenth Street, Suite 3010, Denver, CO 80202 (Corner of 17^th and California)

1.6 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) will be awarded by SPE-Americas Office for this 2-day course.

Course Description

This course covers the fundamentals of rock physics, ranging from basic laboratory and theoretical results to practical “recipes” that can be applied immediately in the field. Applications will focus on seismically detecting variations in lithology, pore fluid types and saturation (oil, water, steam, gases), stress and pore pressure, fractures, and temperature. Case studies and strategies for seismic interpretation, site characterization, recovery monitoring, upscaling seismic and rock properties from the lab to borehole to reservoir scales, plus suggestions for more effectively employing seismic-to-rock properties transforms in geostatistical methods will be discussed.

Course Contents

♦ Rock and fluid factors affecting seismic
♦ Quantitative rock models
♦ Gassmann fluid substitution and its pitfalls
♦ Seismic attenuation and dispersion
♦ Interpreting 4D seismic for reservoir monitoring
♦ Seismic signatures of porosity and lithology
♦ Seismic signatures of fractures
♦ Applications

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for petroleum engineers, geophysicists, reservoir geologists, seismic interpreters, hydrogeologists, and managers concerned with interpretation of seismic data, reservoir and characterization, hydrocarbon detection and monitoring of recovery and remediation processes.

About the Instructor

Dr. Gary Mavko received his Ph.D. degree in geophysics from Stanford University in 1977. He spent the next six years at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park. In 1984 he joined Entropic Geophysical, Inc., a seismic processing contractor, as a research geophysicist and eventually become Entropic’s Vice-President for research. Mavko returned to Stanford University in 1989 where he is a Professor in the Department of Geophysics, and Director of the Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics Project. His current focus is to develop ways to use rock physics knowledge to help bridge the gaps between seismic methods, interpretation, reservoir flow simulations, and geostatistics. Mavko, along with Tapan Mukerji and Jack Dvorkin, published “The Rock Physics Handbook” in 1998. He was awarded Honorary Membership by SEG in 2001, and was the SEG 2006 Distinguished Lecturer.

Registration

The registration deadline is January 9, 2009.  The registration fee is $600.00 and is fully refundable until that time.  For more details, contact Darien O’Brien, P.E. at dgobrien@forestoil.com or (303) 864-6015.  Make your check payable to SPE Denver Section and mail to: Darien O’Brien, Forest Oil Corporation, 707 Seventeenth Street, Suite 3600, Denver, Colorado 80202.  Please include the course name, your FULL name (as you would like it to appear on the course completion certificate), SPE member number (if applicable), Title, Company, e-mail address, postal address, phone and fax number. 

707 17th Street, Suite 3010
(Corner of 17th and California)
Denver, CO 80202

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM - Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 5:00 PM (MT)

Society of Petroleum Engineers Denver Section

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