Petroleum Short Courses

Petroleum Geophysics - Summer 2020

Presented by the University of Houston and The Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Courses will be taught at the University of Houston campus, Charles F. McElhinney Hall (building M/588), room 118. Computer labs will be in Science and Research Building 1, room 230.

Course Schedule

Date & Time	Instructor(s)	Tuition	Room
Seismic Data Acquisition: Modern Land & Marine Technologies & Methods (Course Description and Registration)
May 11 – 15 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Malcolm Lansley	$2,600	M118
Machine Learning Techniques for Engineering and Characterization (Course Description and Registration)
May 18 – 22 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Siddharth Misra	$2,600	M118
Borehole Geophysics (Course Description and Registration)
May 27 – 29 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Rob Stewart, University of Houston	$1,560	M118
Seismic Wave & Ray Theory * ** (Course Description) (Register Here)
June 2 – 5 8 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Gerard Schuster, KAUST University	$2,600	M118 & SR1 230
CSEM & EM Methods in Exploration ** (Course Description) (Register Here)
June 8 – 12 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Neville Barker	$2,600	M118 & SR1 230
Seismic Migration (Course Description) (Register Here)
June 15 – 19 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Hua-Wei Zhou, University of Houston	$2,600	M118
Rock and Fluid Physics (Course Description) (Register Here)
June 22 – 26 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Gary Mavko, Stanford University	$2,600	M118
Seismic Attributes for Carbonate Reservoirs ** (Course Description) (Register Here)
June 29 – July 3 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Kurt Marfurt	$2,600	M118 & SR1 230
Application & Interpretation of Converted Waves (Course Description) (Register Here)
July 6 – 10 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	James Gaiser	$2,600	M118
Velocity Analysis for Depth Imaging (Course Description) (Register Here)
July 13 – 17 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Bee Bednar, Panorama Technologies	$2,600	M118
Anisotropy (Course Description) (Register Here)
July 20 – 24 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Leon Thomsen, University of Houston	$2,600	M118
Seismic Amplitude Interpretation (Course Description) (Register Here)
July 27 – 31 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Fred Hilterman, University of Houston	$2,600	M118
Geophysics Under Stress: Geomechanical Applications of Seismic & Borehole Acoustic Waves (Course Description and Registration)
August 3 – 5 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Colin Sayers	$1,560	M118
Making Money with Petroleum Geophysics (Course Description and Registration)
August 6 – 7 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Bill Abriel	$1,040	M118
Structural Geology in Seismic Interpretation (Course Description and Registration)
August 10 – 14 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Shankar Mitra	$2,600	M118

Note that most courses are one-week courses - approximately 40 hours. The course labelled with a single asterisk (*) will be a 4-day course over 40 hours. Courses with a double asterisk (**) will include a computer lab component. Several courses are less than a week, and the price reflects that. The daily schedule is 8 a.m. to approximately 12 noon, followed by a lunch break, and then continues with afternoon sessions from approximately 12:45 to 4:45 p.m. each day.

Contact Information

Director, Professional Geoscience Programs
Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise
donvann@uh.edu
713-743-3423

Short Course Venues

On Campus - 2019 UH-SEG Summer Geophysics Short Course Series

Lectures will be given on the University of Houston Campus in McElhinney Hall. Room numbers are listed above and on the registration page. Courses requiring computer applications will be held in our computer lab in Science and Research Building 1, room 230. Your instructor will inform you of the days and times you need to report to the computer lab.

Off Campus

If your company would like to present any of these courses in their own training facility or at a nearby location, we could arrange this but would require a minimum of 15 enrollments for such classes.

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