Syllabus/achievement requirements

All curriculum is available online:

 

Obligatory literature:

 

  • Brown, Alistair R., 2004. Interpretation of three-dimenional seismic data, 6th Edition. AAPG Memoir 42. 542p
  • Bond, C.E., 2015. Uncertainty in structural interpretation: Lessons to be learnt. Journal of Structural Geology 76, 185-200. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2015.03.003
  • Cartwright, J and Huuse, M., 2005. 3D seismic technology: the geological ‘Hubble’. Basin Research 17, 1-20. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00252.x

Recommended literature general:
  • Mitchum Jr., R.M., Vail, P.R., and Thompson, S., 1977. Seismic Stratigraphy and Global Changes of Sea Level: Part 2. The Depositional Sequence as a Basic Unit for Stratigraphic Analysis: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation. AAPG Mem. 26, 53-62
  • Mitchum Jr., R.M., Vail, P.R., and Sangree, J.B., 1977. Seismic Stratigraphy and Global Changes of Sea Level, Part 6: Stratigraphic Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Patterns in Depositional Sequences. AAPG Mem. 26, 117-123.
  • Sheriff, R. E., 1985, Aspects of seismic resolution, in O. R. Berg and D. Woolverton, eds., Seismic stratigraphy II: an integrated approach to hydrocarbon exploration: AAPG Memoir 39, p. 1-10
  • Sheriff, R.E.: Understanding the Fresnel zone, 1996. Geophysical Corner. 2pp.
  • Sheriff, R.E.: Seismic Resolution: A key element, 2001. AAPG. Search and Discovery Article #40036.
  • Simm, Rob and Bacon, Mike, 2014. Seismic Amplitude - An Interpreter's Handbook. Cambridge University Press, 271pp DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511984501

Literature study:
  • Bolle L. 1992. Troll Field: Norway's Giant Offshore Gas Field. In: Halbouty M.T. (ed.) Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade 1978–1988. AAPG Memoir, 54, 447–458.
  • Brekke, H., Sjulstad, H.I., Magnus, C. and Williams, R.W., 2001. Sedimentary environments offshore norway — an overview. In: Martinsen, O.J. and Dreyer, T. (Eds) Sedimentary Environments Offshore Norway — Palaeozoic to Recent, NPF Special Publication 10, pp 7-37. DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8937(01)80006-0
  • Dreyer, T., Whitaker, M., Dexter, J., Flesche, H., and Larsen, E., 2005. From spit system to tide-dominated delta: integrated reservoir model of the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord Formation on the Troll West Field. In: Doré, A.G. and Vining, B.A. (Eds) Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives ? Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference. Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series, 6, 423-448. 
  • Faleide, J.I., Bj?rlykke, K. and Gabrielsen, R.H., 2015. Geology of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. In: Bj?rlykke, K. (Ed) Petroleum Geoscience - From Sedimentary Environments to Rock Physics. Springer, Berlin. pp. 603-620 (Note: This covers §§ 25.1-25.2 of this book chapter). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34132-8_25
  • N?ttvedt, A., Gabrielsen, R.H. and Steel, R.J., 1995. Tectonostratigraphy and sedimentary architecture of rift basins, with reference to the northern North Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 12, 881-901. DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(95)98853-W
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