COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEISMIC INTERPRETATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GPE 5030 SEISMIC INTERPRETATION ELECTIVE 2 2 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜNAY ÇIFCI

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering

Course Objective

Seismic data interpretation will be addressed to mainly the interpretation on the seismic data which are how to determine geological information from the data, pitfalls and how to use other data for the interpretation purposes, Seismic waves, data acquisition, Well data, Geophysical interpretation, Geological interpretation, Other geophysical methods, Hydrocarbon reservoirs and their detection using a seismic interpretation software.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   This course contains the exercises that give students the practice necessary for the seismic interpretation,
2   Ater completing seismic interpretation books, students are accomplished enough to interpret with supervision the seismic sections manually,
3   Students using software are taken integration one-step further by facilitating the interpretation of gelogical and geophysical data in either time or depth domain,
4   Some softwares are used during the course on the real seismic data, So the knowledge of the softwares are
5   The practice necessary for a skill in seismic interpretation,
6   Able to picking, identifiying, contouring of the reflections,
7   Determine the faults,
8   Findings the direct hydrocarbon indicators,
9   Determine the anticlines,
10   Using the Kingdom Suite softwares,
11   Using the Petrel Softwares,
12   Drawing lines.
13   Skills to have seismic sections

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Start Intrepeteting; the two tools
2 Pick a reflection, several reflections, Phantom horizon,
3 Many reflections, Entire sections,
4 Line intersection, different scales, determine intersection,
5 Correlate by folding, Cut along the Faults,
6 Straightened loop, Time with scale, Pick and time
7 Fault information, inexact scale
8 Contouring, Connect SPs
9 Depth map, time intervals, drawing lines
10 Contour anticline, correlate faults,
11 More faults, pair of lines, Contour faults,
12 Reef, salt outlines,
13 A prospect; Contour two ways, color map, select locations,
14 Different seismic examples from Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea and Aegean Sea

Recomended or Required Reading

A. Sefünç, Petrol Araştırmalarında Sismik Yorumlamaya Giriş, Meslek içi Eğitim ve Belgelendirme Kurs Notları-6, 2007.

J. Burrell, Seismic Interpretation, PetroSkills, 2006.

R.Mc Quillin, M. Bacon, W. Barclay, An Introduction to Seismic Interpretation, Gulf Publishing Company, 1984.

J.A.Coffeen, Interpreting Seismic Data and Workbook, PennWell Publishing Company, 1984.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is mainly based on exercises, presentation some talks and discussion format. All class members are expected to attend and both aplications and using the seismic software and take part in the discussion sessions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Depending the developments of the intrepretations skills by seismic sections.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gunay.cifci@deu.edu.tr, gunay.cifci@hotmail.com
(232) 278 55 65 /126

Office Hours

Tuesday 14-16, Thursday 14-16

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 13 2 26
Preparing presentations 11 2 22
Reading 12 1 12
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Quiz etc. 6 1 6
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 168

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.134
LO.234
LO.344
LO.455
LO.55
LO.64
LO.733
LO.82
LO.933
LO.103
LO.113
LO.1233
LO.1344

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