Course Catalog
Become a MemberThe full listing of SEG training courses for classroom or in-house training.
3C Seismic and VSP: Converted Waves and Vector Wavefield Applications
This short course discusses the growing importance of three-component (3C) seismic technology that combines shear waves with compressional waves in the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of surface-seismic and borehole data.
3D Seismic Data Acquisition: An Update on Modern Technologies and Usage Methodologies
This course will provide information related to recent advances in data acquisition technology, equipment and the methodologies that are being utilized to improve data quality and, in many cases, reduce the cost of 3D survey acquisition.
A Practical Understanding of Inversion for Exploration Geophysics
The course will identify what is meant by inversion and review the fundamentals of linear algebra with a visual emphasis on inversion techniques.
A Practical Understanding of Pre- and Poststack Migration
These two courses present the basic methods of migration in a simple manner and use diagrams and figures to illustrate principles.
Acoustic & Elastic Seismic Modeling and Imaging (Reverse-Time Migration)
This course deals with the analysis and application of the acoustic and elastic wave equations in exploration seismology. In particular, the course focuses on the finite-difference modeling of the full wave equation and its application to forward modeling and migration.
Advanced Seismic Techniques: Concepts & Examples
This course consists of 6 modules covering data processing and interpretation techniques used by geoscientists to extract structural, stratigraphic and reservoir properties from seismic data.
Ambient Seismic Noise Surface Wave Tomography
Ambient Seismic Noise Surface Wave Tomography is becoming a promising tool for seismic exploration in complement to active seismic prospecting.
An Introduction to Migration and Velocity Model Building
The course will commence with an overview of different migration schemes, and cover the motivations for building detailed velocity models, and briefly discuss the inherent limitations on our ability to build a detailed model.
An Introduction to Perceptive Seismic Interpretation
The objective of the course is to expose the audience to current trends in visualization and to empower them to adopt these new technologies and to integrate them into their workflows.
Application and Interpretation of Converted Waves
This course provides a thorough overview of the methods of multi-component (3-C and 4-C) seismic exploration from basic petrophysical analysis and survey design through 3-D converted-wave migration.
AVO: Seismic Lithology
The goal of this seminar is to update the geophysical community on the current state and future trends of AVO (e.g., azimuthal AVO, “Fizz water” discrimination, shale prospects) and to dispel the mythology which has attached itself to this valuable technique.
Basic Geophysics, Seismic Fundamentals and 3D Seismic Exploration
The course reviews current techniques of 3D seismic data acquisition and processing of land, marine, and ocean-bottom cable surveys.
Basic Machine Learning Tools for Subsurface Data
This course is a hands-on course that will use open-source Python computational platforms, including numpy, sklearn, pandas, and seaborn. This course will provide working knowledge about data analytics and machine learning tools suitable for petroleum engineers, geophysicists, geologists, and geoscientists. In this course, the participants get access to codes and workflows in Python and they apply these pre-built software tools.
Basic Seismic Interpretation
This course provides entry-level training in seismic interpretation and serves as a foundation for intermediate and advanced geophysics/seismic courses.
Business Fundamentals for Petroleum Geophysics
This course is intended for new hires, experienced geologists, and geoscience technicians who work with seismic data and wish to learn and develop basic seismic interpretation skills.
Carbonate Essentials: Pores to Prospect
This course is an overview of carbonates from geology to seismic interpretation, with particular emphasis on karst topography and seismic expression thereof.
Concepts and Applications in 3D Seismic Imaging
The primary objective of this course is to provide a broad and intuitive understanding of seismic imaging concepts and methods that enables geoscientists to make the appropriate decisions during acquisition, processing, imaging, and interpretation projects.
Construction of fractured reservoir models for flow simulation incorporating geology, geophysics, and geomechanics
Flow models have the purpose of explaining and forecasting reservoir performance that can help plan the development and exploitation of the resource. Conventional and unconventional naturally fractured reservoirs are particularly difficult to model due to the interconnectivity of matrix and fracture properties. Unconventional reservoirs pose the additional challenge of accounting for natural fractures that can become conductive during hydraulic stimulation. This class explains the steps necessary to build fractured reservoir models using sound stratigraphic and structural frameworks, calibrated 3D seismic attributes, and geomechanical information. Models and concepts are examined in the context of how they impact fluid flow, reservoir simulation results, field production, and forecast. This 2-day course will present the workflows that have been developed along with spreadsheet-based exercises to solidify concepts. The course provides in-depth presentations and discussions of the models presented.
Converted-wave prestack imaging and joint inversion
The course is recommended for geophysicists with an undergraduate background who are involved with seismic acquisition, processing or interpretation.
Digital Signal Analysis in Seismic Data Processing
This course is designed at an introductory level to cover in some details the theoretical background and the practical applications of digital signal analysis in seismic data processing.
Dynamic Reservoir Characterization: Multicomponent 4D
The purpose of the course is to provide real case studies of multicomponent seismic applications towards an actual dynamic reservoir problem.
Effective Scientific Writing
This course will develop participants’ expertise in the writing process and provide insight into the readers’ expectations.
Explorational Rock Physics and Seismic Reservoir Prediction
This course covers fundamentals of Rock Physics, ranging from basic laboratory and theoretical results to practical recipes that can be immediately applied in the field.
Full Waveform Inversion
This course is designed for technical personnel of the oil and gas industry who are engaged or expected to be involved in seismic imaging, accurate velocity analysis and interpretation. Seismic Inversion plays an important role in building reservoir models by integration of different data types.
Fundamentals of Rock Physics for Exploration
This course will demonstrate the necessity for understanding of how individual rock properties affect the P-wave and S-wave velocity variations within the earth.
Gas Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists
Geophysical Application to Petroleum Engineering
The main objective of the course is to apply geophysics to petroleum engineering aspects of reservoir analysis by demonstrating how the models arrived.
Geophysical Applications of Time-Frequency Analysis
This course shows how basic knowledge of joint time-frequency (JTF) analysis theory associated with pseudo computer programming can help geoscientists to take full advantage of their real world applications.
Geophysics for Petroleum and Energy Evolution Professionals
This course is designed to identify a specific operational problem and provide an integrated geophysical tool to help solve that problem.
Geophysics Under Stress: Geomechanical Applications of Seismic and Borehole Acoustic Waves
The short-course presentation, limited to two days, will provide an overview of the basic concepts and applications, and minimizes the use of mathematical developments.
Geopressure and Prospect’s Risk Assessment
This course examines integrated petrophysical properties to the subsurface geological, rock mechanics and hydrodynamic models
Gravity and Magnetics for Explorationists
This course is designed for geologists and geophysicists with interests in potential fields and regional tectonics.
Integrating Seismic, CSEM and Well Log Data for Reservoir Characterization
This course will concentrate on three contrasting methods: surface seismic, marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) and well-log data.
Interpretation Workflows for a Solid Seismic Interpretation
This course covers the fundamentals of necessary poststack and prestack interpretation techniques to generate a successful seismic interpretation.
Introduction to 2D/3D Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing for Non-Geophysicists
This course discusses the seismic principles necessary for understanding the concepts of seismic data acquisition and processing.
Introduction to Applied Depth Imaging
This course provides an understanding of the basic concepts and practical aspects used for building velocity models and generating seismic images.
Introduction to Field Safety Leadership
This field safety program is straightforward, widely applicable, and scalable to a wide range of field activities, from short roadside stops to long, backcountry expeditions.
Introduction to Geohazards Assessment
This course provides participants with knowledge on various aspects of geohazards for shallow water, deepwater environments, as well as an introduction to onshore issues.
Lithium Exploration and Development for a New Energy Economy
This course is designed to arm the geoscientist with entry to intermediate level oil and gas experience with enhanced geological/geophysical knowledge for lithium exploration and development within a given area.
Machine Learning on Images, Waveforms, and Time Series Data
In this course, the participants get access to codes and workflows in Python and they apply these pre-built software tools on the various types of the datasets. It is a hands-on course that allows participants to learn by assembling various pre-built programming modules to design interesting implementations of machine learning.
Machine Learning Techniques for Engineering and Characterization
This course will present an overview of some common machine learning techniques deployed in reservoir characterization. Emphasis will be on the use of supervised learning, clustering, and neural networks using Python and Tensorflow. Subsurface engineers and geoscientists will learn about the latest applications of machine learning and neural networks.
Magnetotellurics for Natural Resources: From Acquisition through Interpretation
This course will provide the interested geophysicist with the knowledge and skills necessary to design and manage cost-effective MT field programs and to understand the data processing and interpretation issues.
Modern Seismic Reservoir Characterization
This course summarizes the state-of-the-art of seismic reservoir characterization, using anisotropic seismic rock physics.
Near-surface Interferometry
The course covers the basics and field practices of interferometry, super-virtual interferometry, and parsimonious interferometry for near-surface seismic applications.
Oil Reservoir Engineering for Geoscientists
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Passive surface wave methods using ambient noise: from basic 1D soundings to high-resolution 3D imaging
The short course will include presentations on passive surface wave theory, data acquisition, data processing, and applications.
Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers
Petroleum Systems of Deepwater Settings
This course is designed to enhance interpretation skill sets with regard to geologic interpretation of seismic data.
Petrophysics and Geophysics Relevant to CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery
In this SEG two-day course the basic physics relevant to CO2 are presented, including the descriptions of gas, liquid and super critical phases (scCO2).
Petrophysics and Geophysics Relevant to Hydrogen (H2) Storage, Monitoring and Utilization
In this SEG eight-hour course the basic physics and associated modeled petrophysics relevant to Hydrogen are presented, including the descriptions of the gas, liquid, and super critical phases (scCO₂).
Planning and Operating a Land 3D Seismic Survey
This course will teach you to plan and oversee a 3D land seismic survey. It will expose you to the practical aspects of 3D survey design and then teach you the basics of planning and designing a survey.
Practical Applications of Time-Lapse Seismic Data
The presentations will focus on fundamental principles and applications, emphasizing case studies and minimizing mathematics.
Practical Machine Learning Methods in the Geosciences
The short course is for physical scientists who have heard about ML and might know some details, but lack enough knowledge to assess ML applications in their specialty.
Practical Mathematics and its Applications in Seismic Processing
This course reviews mathematics from high-school and university, and then expands their concepts with practical examples to provide the fundamentals that are required for developing practical applications and algorithms in seismic processing.
Practical Seismic Surface Wave Methods
This short course builds an understanding of and skill set with the method sufficient that participants can confidently incorporate the MASW method in their work.
Processing, Inversion and Reconstruction of Seismic Data
This course covers practical aspects of signal theory and inverse problems with application to seismic data processing. In particular, the course stresses regularization methods for inverse problems that arise in the inversion of seismic data, noise elimination and reconstruction of seismic surveys.
Python Programming for Subsurface Data Analysis
The course will emphasize on developing and implementing python programming for various types of subsurface data.
Reservoir Geophysics: Applications
The objective of the course is to demonstrate how and why geophysics adds value in reservoir management using examples from multiple geological environments (deepwater turbidites, onshore fluvial, near shore deltaics, carbonates).
Rock physics, geomechanics, and hazard of fluid-induced seismicity
Rock Physics: Seismic Reflections of Rock Properties
Participants will learn the uses of rock physics in interpreting the elastic properties of earth, as sensed by seismic radiation, for lithology, fluid, and porosity determination.
Seismic Anisotropy: Basic Theory and Applications in Exploration and Reservoir Characterization
Elastic anisotropy, widely recognized as a typical feature of sedimentary formations, has a strong influence on seismic velocities and amplitudes.
Seismic Attributes – from Interactive Interpretation to Machine Learning
In this course, we will gain an intuitisve understanding of the kinds of seismic features that can be identified by 3D seismic attributes, the sensitivity of seismic attributes to seismic acquisition and processing, and of how “independent” seismic attributes are coupled through geology.
Seismic Data Acquisition: Modern Land and Marine Technologies and Methods
Seismic Diffraction – Modeling, Imaging and Applications
The imaging of seismic diffraction is a rapidly emerging technology. The course will cover both the forward and inverse problems.
Seismic Interpretation in Deep Water Basins
This course is based on the systematic, comparative interpretation of modern, long offset, regional seismic profiles with time and depth migration and several suites of selected 3D data in the deep-water realm from around the…
Seismic Stratigraphy and Seismic Geomorphology into the 21st Century
This course is designed to enhance interpretation skill sets with regard to geologic interpretation of seismic data.
Seismic Uncertainty Evaluation (SUE)
The course covers the assessment, quantification, and qualification of the seismic uncertainties in a systematic and technical manner in order to arrive at a risking scorecard.
Structural Geology in Seismic Intepretation
The course is designed for geophysicists working on seismic interpretation of complex structures, who need to understand the seismic expression of structures in petroleum basins, and correctly apply structural models and techniques to seismic interpretation.
Synthetic Seismograms – Construction and Use
Earth’s subsurface is heterogeneous, and seismic data have been successfully used in subsurface characterization. We make use of synthetic seismograms in every stages of seismic study: seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation. In this course, we will focus its uses in seismic interpretation. Synthetic seismograms are computed using a wavelet and a seismic forward modeling method (like, convolution of reflectivity series with a wavelet) to generate seismic response over earth models.
The Dynamics of Energy Use
This course is designed for in-person/in-class teaching but can be adjusted for hybrid delivery. There are four thematic modules. Participants are required to follow the course contents, do pre-course reading, and actively participate.
The Geology of Unconventional Reservoirs
This 16 hour course will include a mix of lectures, short exercises and discussion sessions. The content will be prepared to anticipate the likelihood that participants will have different levels of technical knowledge about petroleum geology.
The Interpreter’s Guide to Depth Imaging
The course focuses on intuitive quality controls and quantitative spreadsheet tools to plan and ensure stable depth solutions during the iterative imaging process.
The new seismic interpretation: Integrating Relative Geologic Time, Structural Geology and 3D seismic for more effective stratigraphic exploration and development
This course starts with a review of two important new paradigms. The first builds on Wheeler’s work to show why the “Relative Geologic Time” or RGT model takes integrated interpretation to the next level. The second shows how the classic “G&G” approach my many holds us back from true integration, where an “S&S” approach that allows structural geoscientists and stratigraphic scientists to decouple RGT geomodels into structural and stratigraphic workflows in a way that yields superior results.
The seismic wavelet: Its modelling, acquisition, processing, interpretation, and inversion (In marine, transition and land environment)
The Strategic Opportunity of Sustainability in the Energy Sector
Sustainability is an essential topic to meet the expectations of investors and to walk in the energy transition path with success. Rankings of ESG parameters position companies and attract investors. This course is to help your incursion in sustainability, learning the why and how.
Understanding and Adapting Rockphysics Principles for Mudrock (Shale) Reservoirs
Rock physics principles allow us to understand and interpret matrix- and fluid-related changes in porosity, pore space topology, and seismic and transport properties.
Understanding Seismic Anisotropy in Exploration and Exploitation
This short course discusses the growing importance of the seismic anisotropy of rock masses in seismic acquisition, processing, and interpretation.
Understanding Signals: Waveform Analysis from a Geophysical Perspective
This course presents a simple and informal discussion of the fundamental concepts which underlie the quantitative part of geophysical analysis and interpretation.