Industry Sponsors

We do not offer a formal Consortium, but rather establish individual relationships with industry sponsors to facilitate collaborative studies and provide datasets for student research. Currently, the program maintains a database of more than 100,000 km of 2D seismic reflection data, several 3D seismic reflection surveys, satellite and airborne remote sensing images (LandsatTM, SPOT, and airphotos), and information from more than 10,000 oil wells. Commercial software applications include: Landmark Openworks, Seisworks2D/3D, ProMax, SeisCube, StratWorks, TDQ, ZAP, ZmapPlus, PAL, PetroWorks, EarthCube, FastTrack, and OpenVision; Sclumberger GeoQuest, IESX, and GeoViz; Erdas Imagine; ESRI ArcInfo, ArcView; Paradigm Geophysical SeisX, VoxelGeo, Geosec 2D/3D; T-surf Gocad; Seismic Micro Technology Kingdom Suite; and Karl Thompson & Associates SeisbaseIII.

Our Program's structural modeling and seismic processing facilities include SGI, Sun, and PC (Linux) workstations with large data storage, scanning, and plotting capabilities. Furthermore, we maintain a state-of-the-art Visualization Lab, which includes three Christie digital projectors (Mirage 2000P) displaying on a 23 ft wide cylindrical screen. The system is driven by a 8 processor, shared memory SGI Onyx with 16GB of RAM and two Infinite Reality 4 graphics pipes, each with a gigabyte of texture RAM. The system has active stereo viewing capabilities for analysis of geological and geophysical data using a variety of commercial and open source software.

Please contact Professor John H. Shaw (shaw@eps.harvard.edu) if you would like more information about our industry academic collaborations.

Industry Training Courses

We regularly offer training courses in structural analysis and seismic interpretation for professional petroleum geoscientists:

Seismic Interpretation of Compressive Structures:
Field Trip to the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountain Foreland

Duration: 7 days (includes arrival and departure days)

Description: This structural field course in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rockies focuses on relating outcrop to seismic expressions of compressive structural styles that are common in fold-and-thrust belts and deepwater passive margins (toe thrust belts) worldwide. Course topics include seismic interpretation of thrust and reverse faults, detachment surfaces, fault-bend folds,

fault-propagation folds, detachment folds, growth structures, wedge structures, and imbricate structures. The course offers an extensive "atlas-style" guidebook with seismic examples from petroleum basin throughout the world, as well as instructional materials and exercises on quantitative structural interpretation of seismic data.

The next course will be held in July 2006.

Please visit the field trip webpage to learn more about the course. (/FieldTrip/).
Please contact us if you are interesting in scheduling this course for your company, or participating in an open enrollment offering (shaw@eps.harvard.edu).

Seismic Interpretation of Contractional Fault-Related Folds

Duration: 4 days

Description: This course provides a thorough introduction to quantitative fault-related folding methods as applied to seismic interpretation. Course topics include: fault-bend folds, shear fault-bend folds, fault-propagation folds, detachment folds, growth structures, wedge structures, interference folds, and imbricate structures. Students perform exercises interpreting seismic data from orogenic fold-and-thrust belts and passive margin toe-thrust belts in North America, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, China, Nigeria, Indonesia, and elsewhere. The course is taught in multimedia format, and uses a course manual based on the AAPG Seismic Atlas (Studies in Geology #53) entitled “Seismic interpretation of contractional fault-related folds.”

Please contact us if you are interesting in scheduling this course for your company, or participating in an open enrollment offering (shaw@eps.harvard.edu).

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