CSPG30SC Seismic Interpretation of Structural Styles
Designed for: Geoscience professionals starting their career or at any level who wish to understand fundamental seismic interpretation in a structural context. G&G technologists who require an understanding of structural interpretation of seismic data will also benefit from attending this class.
Objectives: To showcase the application of structural geology concepts to the interpretation of seismic data in a broad range of different structural regimes.
Course Description: The class is designed as a seismic workshop-style class and will consist of presentations and lectures interspersed with numerous seismic exercises.
Main topics include:
- Introduction: Basic Structural Concepts, Geometries and Common Seismic Interpretation Issues
- Extensional Structural Regimes: examples, analytical techniques, petroleum systems and interpretation exercises in 2-D and 3-D
- Compressional Structural Regimes: examples, interpretation, petroleum systems and balancing and correlation exercises in 2-D and 3-D
- Tectonic Inversion: seismic examples, interpretation exercises and the impact of inversion on the petroleum system
- Gravitationally driven systems: balancing downdip compressional shortening with updip extension.
- Strike Slip Structural Regimes: Transtension, Transpression and reconciling map and seismic data
- Salt and mobile shale Structural Regimes: The basics of salt tectonics, application to shale diapirism and seismic interpretation exercises.
- Fault seal analysis: integration of seismic and well data for fault seal analysis
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Mark Cooper
Mark Cooper graduated with a B.Sc. geology degree from Imperial College, London in 1974 and with a Ph.D. from Bristol University in 1977. He taught geology at University College Cork prior to joining BP in 1985 to work on structurally complex basins based in London. Mark moved to BP Canada, Calgary in 1988 where he worked on exploration in the foothills including the successful Sukunka/Bullmoose gas play in NE British Columbia. Mark also worked for BP in Colombia on the team that drilled the discovery wells on the Cupiagua, Volcanera and Florena Fields. In 1994 he joined PanCanadian and worked on the BC foothills, western Newfoundland, Quebec, the Gulf of Mexico, the Scotian Shelf and various international projects. He worked on frontier and international projects in Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Eastern Europe and Greenland after the merger that created EnCana in 2002 managing the Middle East and Global New Ventures groups for EnCana. Mark retired from EnCana as VP Middle East and Global New Ventures at the end of 2007 and now has his own consulting practice specializing in International Exploration and Structural Geology. He has published over 50 papers, co‐edited a book on Inversion Tectonics and has served as an advisory editor for the Journal of the Geological Society. He was a co-winner of the CSPG Link Award in 1997, served as an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer for 1999/2000 and was a co-winner of the AAPG Matson Award in 2002. Mark has been heavily involved with both the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the AAPG serving on committees in both organizations over the last 10 years.
Marian Jenner Warren, PhD
Jenner GeoConsulting
Suite 208, 1235 17th Ave. SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2T 0C2
marian@jennergeo.com
www.jennergeo.com
Marian Warren completed a bachelor’s degree in geology and astronomy/physics at Williams College, Massachusetts. After a stint as an instructor and astronomical observatory technician at Williams College, she pursued geology, completing a M.S. with thesis work in Appalachian tectonics at the University of Vermont, and a PhD with thesis work in Canadian Cordilleran tectonics at Queen’s University, Canada.
Marian joined EnCana (then PanCanadian Petroleum) in Calgary in 1997, where she held roles as geologist, geophysical interpreter and structural specialist. Her focus has been on exploration in new or known structurally-influenced clastic and carbonate plays, with projects in the Alberta foreland basin and foothills, including the Mississippian Banff B Pool discovery at Ferrier, in the Quebec Appalachians, in the central African rift system in Chad, and in exploring for unconventional gas in the French Aquitaine Basin.
Marian also has been involved in developing and presenting numerous technical training courses and field trips for EnCana technical staff, the CSEG, CSPG, Nautilus GTA and other organizations. Marian was a co-recipient of the CSPG Medal of Merit in 2003, winner of the AAPG Matson (Best Paper) Award in 2004, and served as an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer in 2006-2007, in the category of Case Studies in exploration. She currently has a consulting company, Jenner GeoConsulting, in Calgary, Canada, with services applied worldwide in frontier basin exploration, structural geology and professional training courses.
