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Petroleum Geophysics Summer 2008

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Rock and Fluid Physics
	Instructors	Tuition
	Dr. John Castagna University of Houston	$2000

Course description

This course reviews various physical properties of rocks and fluids and the seismic response to materials with those properties with direction applications to exploitation, exploration and geophysical modeling.

Course outline

• Introduction
• Reservoir environment
• Elasticity of porous media
• Velocity of sandstone
• Velocity of poorly consolidated rock
• Velocity of carbonate
• Gassmann equation
• Optimal hydrocarbon indicator
• Hydrocarbon fluids properties
• Velocity dispersion and attenuation
• Seismic Rock Physics: Applications