Training Course Catalog

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the importance of pore pressure modelling with specific application to unconventional resources.

This two-day course is to provide an overview of the fundamentals of 4D seismic technology, starting from its role in field lifecycle planning and then through seismic acquisition, processing, and analysis.

This one-day course is designed for geologists, geophysicists and engineers who desire a greater understanding of the value that geomechanics can bring to unconventional resource plays. It aims to explore the underlying links between geomechanics, geophysics and reservoir behavior and demonstrate how they can be used to enhance our understanding and predict that behavior pre-drill. This course will enable attendees to make more informed decisions when considering utilization of geomechanics and how to communicate the value that it can bring to their asset. The relevance of geomechanics for the plays of the Greater Permian Basin will also be addressed.

This two day training class is based on the unconventional chapters from Lev Vernik’s recently published, virtually sold-out book “Seismic Petrophysics in Quantitative Interpretation”. The course is exclusively available with Ikon Science.

The main objective of this 3 Day course is for attendees to learn how pressure data effects the safe and optimal exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon reservoirs.Overpressure is found in most sedimentary basins, where reservoirs tend to be fine-grained lithologies, especially at depths >2.0km below sea-bed.

Taught by Jorg Herwanger. The main geomechanical applications in this course will focus on fractures and hydraulic stimulation (fracture orientation and containment, re-activation of pre-existing fractures versus creation of new fractures, shear fractures versus tensile fractures, fault stability), and wellbore stability.

The course is aimed at both understanding and reducing uncertainty during well planning and design. Through discussion, you will learn how to consider both data-driven uncertainty as well as process-driven approaches. The ultimate aim is to see if Expected and High Cases can be appropriately risked such that percentage likelihood can be assigned to each.

The principal objective of this course is to teach participants how pressure can be predicted in complex geological settings as well as being used for seal breach analysis and the understanding of hydrodynamic plays.

This highly acclaimed and constantly evolving course (now in its 11th year), is a must for all geoscientists wanting to understand rock physics principles, their application to amplitude interpretation (including AVO reflectivity and elastic inversion products) and how they can be applied to reduce drilling risk.

This course is a condensed version of the 3 Day ‘The Essentials of Rock Physics for Seismic Amplitude Interpretation’ designed by Dr Rob Simm of Rock Physics Associates.

This course introduces attendees to the fundamental concepts underpinning any geomechanical study such as rock properties, the relationship between stress and strain, sources of stress and the components of a full stress tensor.

Designed to give an understanding of the interpretation process, and the nature of the results in the context of the drilling environment and data quality. Where possible, examples and practical exercises utilise real world data and results. This course is for anyone involved in petroleum related exploration or well planning without detailed geomechanical experience.

Designed to give an understanding of the interpretation process, and the nature of the results in the context of the drilling environment and data quality. Where possible, examples will utilise real world data and results. This course is for anyone involved in petroleum related exploration or well planning without detailed geomechanical experience.

This course is dedicated to rock-physics-based workflows leading to (a) the generation of site-specific transforms between the properties (porosity, mineralogy, solid-frame geometry) and conditions (pressure and pore fluid) of rock and its elastic properties and (b) using the models thus established to create geologically plausible catalogues of the seismic amplitude as a function of rock properties and conditions.