Rock Physics Course (Geophysics)


Trainer(s): Jaap Mondt
Duration: 5 Days

The course emphasizes rock-physics model building and ways to use and verify the models using seismic data. It starts with designing effective media in interactive notebooks with Python code using Differential Effective Medium (DEM). In DEM we start with an effective background medium and successively change the rock properties. The module allows the calculation of elastic parameters for different proportions of lithology mixtures and by adding sequentially different kinds of features. For clastic reservoirs interparticle and aligned cracks describe an anisotropic medium quite well, but for carbonates vugs, solution cavities, might be added. It will be shown in an exercise that the order in which features are added influences the end result. Then various aspects of AVA will be discussed: forward modelling, attribute ranking and inversion aiming at a further understanding of what can be derived from seismic in terms of reservoir properties, be it clastics (sand/shale), carbonates (limestone/dolomite) or unconventional (shale) in combination with rock physics. Each day the participants are invited to give a summary of the main learning points of the previous day and the day will be closed by a quiz, again empathizing the learning points.

Teamwork will consist of: Summary/Presentation of learning points previous day

Day 1:

09:00-09:30 1.Biography, 2.Program RF, 3.52 Things, 4.How a Geophysicist, 5.Teams

09:30-09:45 6.Geophysical Methods

09.45-10:15 7. Comparison Rock-Physics Models, 8.Seismic for Rock-Physics

10:15-10:30 9. Effective Media

10:30-11:00 10. Ex: Excel Effective Media

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-13:00 11.Rock Physics

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 12.Videos: Rock Physics (26:30)

14:30-15:00 13.DEM

15:00-15:15 Refreshments

15:15-16:00 14. Ex: Colab Voight Reuss Hill

16:00-16:30 Quiz 1

Team a: Preparation Summary of day 1

 

Day 2:

09:00-09:30 Team a: Summary of day 1

09:30-10:00 1. AI, EI, EEI, EPI

10:00-11:00 2. Ex: Colab DEM Shale

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-13:00 3. Inhomogeneity, 4. Anisotropy

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 5.Videos: EAGE Improved rock property estimation from joint inversion

14:30-15:30 6. Ex: Colab DEM Sandstone

15:30-15:45 Refreshments

15:45-16:15 7. Carbonate Iran Sharifi

16:15-17:00 8. Ex Colab DEM Carbonate

17:00-17:30 Quiz 2

Team b: Preparation Summary of day 2

 

Day 3:

09:00-09:30 Team b: Summary of day 2

09:30-10:00 1. Lambda-Mu-Rho

09:30-11:30 2. Ex: Excel AVA HTI Ortho

10:30-11:00 3 Demo Colab AVO Tuning

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-12:00 4. Ex: Colab Clastic Additions

12:00-13:00 5. AVA & Well Seismic Profiling

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 6. Videos: EAGE AVO

15:00-15:30 7. Ex: Colab Carbonate Additions

15:30-15:45 Refreshments

15:45-16:15 8. AVA & Facies Prediction

16:15-17:00 9 Ex: Colab AVA Clastic

17:00-17:30 Quiz 3

Team c: Preparation Summary of day 3

 

Day 4:

09:00-09:30 Team c: Summary of day 3

09:30-10:15 1.AVAz Fractures, 2.Machine learning,

10:15-11:00 3. Ex: Colab Permeability Clastic

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-12:00 4.ML AVO Tutorial II, 5. Inversion

12:00-13:00 6.Ex: Colab AVO Classes

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 7. Videos: Inversion vs ML

14:30-15:30 8. Ex: AVA Inversion I

15:30-15:45 Refreshments

15:45-16:00 9.SOM

16:00-16:30 10.Ex: Colab AVA 5-Attributes Ranking

16:30-17:00 11.ML Learning Methods

17:00-17:30 Quiz 4

Team d: Preparation Summary of day 4

 

Day 5:

09:00-09:30 Team d: Summary of day 4

09:30-10:00 1. AVA & Well Seismic Profiling

10:00-11:00 2. Ex: Colab Permeability Carbonate

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-11:45 3. New Rock-Physics model

11:45-13:00 4. Ex: Colab AVA Attribute Expansion

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:15 5. Video: You ain’t seen nothing yet

14:15-15:00 6. Ex Colab AVA All-Attributes Ranking

15:00-15:15 Refreshments

15:15-16:15 7. Ex Large Language Model (LLM)

16:15-16:30 Quiz 5