Full-wave seismic exploration records and analyses the great richness of elastic waves in the subsurface to more completely characterize the rocks of resource interest. This interactive webinar will first discuss elastic rock properties - and the lab and borehole methods to evaluate them. We’ll next consider the instruments, logistics, and survey designs (land and marine) to fully record 3C/4C-3D seismic waves. This is followed by a discussion of near-surface properties (from ground roll, guided, and refracted waves) proceeding to multicomponent processing of PP, converted-wave, and SS events, including full-waveform inversion and anisotropy. The webinar will conclude with applications of the technology to resource discovery and recovery and what’s on the horizon.

Who should attend:

(1) Exploration Geoscientists

(2) Petrophysicists

(3) Seismic Processors, Interpreters, & Researchers

What you will learn:

(1) Elements of petrophysics, well log, and VSP analysis for reservoir characterization

(2) New seismic instruments and 3C/4C-3D survey designs

(3) Multi-component seismic data analysis from statics through inversion

(4) Basics of data interpretation & practical applications

Robert R. Stewart received a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in physics and mathematics and completed a Ph.D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been employed with Chevron’s Oil Field Research Lab, California; Atlantic-Richfield in Dallas, Texas; and Veritas Software Ltd., Calgary. He is president of GENNIX Technology Corp. – a geophysical consulting company. Rob was a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Calgary and held the Chair in Exploration Geophysics for a ten-year term. He joined the University of Houston in 2008 as a Professor of Geophysics, holds the Cullen Chair in Exploration Geophysics, and is Director of the Allied Geophysical Laboratories. Rob founded UH’s Geophysical Field School in Montana and is a licensed geoscientist in Alberta (P. Geoph.) and Texas (P.G.).

Rob served as President of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and received the CSEG’s Honorary Membership Award in 2004. He was the SEG’s Distinguished Educator and received their Lifetime Membership Award in 2006. Rob has led geophysical expeditions to the High Arctic with NASA’s Haughton Mars Project, surveyed Maya archaeological ruins in Central America with the Program for Belize, and leads the Geoscientists Without Borders effort in Haiti, seismically searching for the blind fault that caused the 2010 earthquake. He was recently inducted into the Explorers Club of New York and was named by Hart’s Exploration & Production Magazine as an Industry Icon – the most influential people in the energy industry: 2010-2019. He was delighted to be made an Honorary Member of the Geophysical Society of Houston in 2011 and keenly aspires to continue to serve the GSH.