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Registration Fees

NOTE: For Student Registrations (please note, all student non-members must submit a copy of their student ID to [email protected] to register for the event)

Registration fee includes: Coffee breaks (during meeting), Lunches (Tuesday-Thursday)

Early Bird Registration Fee (must be registered and paid before 26 October 2023)
US$1,400 (member) | US$1,640 (non-member)

Full Registration Fee (begins from 27 October 2023 onwards)
US$1,610 (member) | US$1,850 (non-member)

Academia Registration Fee
US$650

Student Registration Fee
US$250 (member)

Refund/Cancellation Policy:
Written notice received by 26 October 2023 entitles registrants to a full refund of the registration fee minus US$50 for processing. No refunds will be issued after 26 October 2023. Substitutions are permissible with written approval by the event organizers. Notify Adrienne Maxine Lara ([email protected]) immediately to request a substitution.

Who Should Attend?

We anticipate broad participation to this workshop from academia and from industry, from experts and practitioners, from the Middle East Region and worldwide. As with previous workshops, the organizers objectives are to provide a platform for communications and collaborations within a broad technical community sharing common technical interests and focus on the topic of seismic multiples.

Workshop Venue

Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, Kuwait

On a sandy beach along the Arabian Gulf, this high-end hotel is a nine-minute walk from the pools at Messila Water Village, and 16 km from Kuwait International Airport.

Housing/Reservations

Rooms have been negotiated for the following rate at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, Kuwait. Attendees are requested to contact the hotel directly to reserve your accommodation. Rates are subject to LRA upon your booking request (Last Room Availability)

• Single Deluxe Room KWD 80 per room per night includes 15% service charge (approx. US$ 259)
• Double Deluxe Room KWD 95 per room per night includes 15% service charge (approx. US$ 307)

Rates above are inclusive of buffet breakfast at the Garden Café restaurant

For reservations, please fill the form and send it to [email protected]. To view more details on the hotel, click here.

Keynote Speakers

• Adriana Citlali Ramirez, TGS
• Arthur Weglein, University of Houston
• Clement Kostov, Consultant
• Constantine Tsingas, Saudi Aramco
• Eric Verschuur, TU Delft
• Frederico Xavier de Melo, SLB
• Gordon Poole, CGG
• Kees Wapenaar, TU Delft
• Marcin Dukalski, Aramco Research Center – Delft
• Yang KunLun, BGP

Technical Sessions

• Technology Trends: Acquisition, Processing & Interpretation
• Developments in Muliples Prediction and Adaptive Subtraction
• Multiples and Near-surface and/or Shallow Water, Removing Overburden Multiples
• Using Multiples for Subsurface Imaging
• Deconvolution Approaches to the Prediction of Multiples or Primaries
• HPC, AI, & more
• Case Studies, Validation & Assessment

A guided tour of seismic processing of multiples: drivers, technologies, and applications

• Date: 27 November 2023
• Duration: 4 hours
• Instructor: Clément Kostov
• Location: Kuwait

Lecture Overview

The topic of seismic multiples evolves continuously as a result of advances within its own field as well as changes in applications and related technologies. For many geoscientists, the topic may seem challenging to enter or to keep abreast of developments.

This lecture is intended for students and for professionals who are looking for an introduction or a refresher on the topic of multiples in seismic processing, either as a stand-alone training module, or in combination with attending this.

The format of the lecture will be two sessions of two hours each, with time for questions and discussion as part of each session.

Lecture Outline

• Introduction
  • Application context and historical perspective on technology developments
  • Definitions, forward modelling methods and numerical simulations of seismic multiples
  • Principles of interferometric combinations of seismic events
• Classes of seismic multiples and corresponding processing methods
  • Classes of multiples in terms of their seismic events components or signal processing attributes
  • Processing methods in terms of their goals, assumptions about the subsurface, data requirements, and properties of the results.
• Application examples
  • On-shore surveys in the Middle East
  • Shallow water towed streamer and sea-bed surveys
  • Sonic logging and borehole seismic surveys
• Summary and take-aways
  • A toolbox of multiples processing methods
  • Principles and trends in the development of seismic processing for multiples

Registration Rates

Lecture Registration Fee
US$175

Speaker Biography

Clément Kostov is a Consulting research geophysicist, based in France. Clément’s interest in seismic multiples started during his PhD studies at Stanford University in the late 1980’s and continued through several assignments with Schlumberger from 1990 to 2020. Throughout his career Clément has had the opportunity and privilege to work with and learn from many of the leading experts in academia and in industry on the topics of multiples and seismic data processing.

Clément has contributed to past SEG/KOC workshops on multiples (2014, 2019, and 2021) as keynote speaker and organizing committee member. Clément has also co-organized several workshops and conference sessions for SEG, EAGE and GSH and has served as Associate Editor for Geophysics. In 2021, Clément received the GEOPHYSICS Reviewer of the Year Award from SEG. Currently, Clément is a member of SEG, EAGE, IEEE and ASA professional societies and volunteers as associate editor for the journals of Geophysical Prospecting, First Break, and the Revue des Ingénieurs des Mines.

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