Practical Depth Conversion and Depth Imaging for the Interpreter | RILS format (Remote Instructor-Led Series)

This is a Remote Instructor Led Series (RILS) training. The remote classroom delivery is a modality that takes advantage of the instructor led training content, while allowing the same content to be delivered remotely.
All training sessions will be delivered online with no face-to-face classroom attendance. This class will be delivered in 4 to 6 hours daily sessions over 8 to 10 days. 

This course reviews depth conversion and depth imaging using industry-wide processing and interpretation approaches. Depth conversion of time interpretations is a basic skill set for interpreters. There is no single methodology that is optimal for all cases. The first part of this course emphasizes understanding the nature of velocity fields and practical approaches to velocity representation. Next, appropriate depth-conversion methods are presented in case history and exercise form. Basic and more advanced depth-conversion approaches are reviewed in context to quantitative depth-uncertainty analysis. Freeware is provided to accomplish the above goals. 

Depth migration should be considered an integral component of interpretation. If the results derived from depth imaging are intended to mitigate risk, the interpreter must actively guide the process. The second part of this course is an intuitive description of the theory and practical implementation of prestack depth imaging. The course focuses on the interpreter-oriented quality controls used to ensure stable velocity solutions and geologically reasonable results. The latest advances in Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) and FWI Imaging are reviewed. For anisotropic prestack depth migration, the course defines the role of the interpreter in the formation of the initial Vz velocity model and the estimation of anisotropic parameters. The course concludes by outlining the flow for calibrating the depth-migration volumes to well tops and the formation of meaningful seismic attributes.