Possible schedule for 6 Seminars at KFUPM

Overview of Near Surface Challenges and current approaches Geological complexities (wadis, collapses, dunes, jebels, pinch-outs) Refraction statics and velocity reversals Upholes: sparseness, accuracy, cost-effectiveness Traveltime inversion of first arrivals (tomostatics)

Tomography and tomostatics Introduction to seismic tomography Traveltime inversion of direct, reflected and refracted arrivals Pitfalls in seismic tomography: null space, and ray tracing versus Fresnel radius

Introduction to basic geostatistics, and analysis of real geophysical data Basic assumptions in geostatistics: covariance, nugget effect, range, kriging and

co-kriging Applications to reservoir characterization Applications to uphole interpolation and near-surface attributes

Time-lapse for near surface and for reservoir monitoring Seasonal effects on land and marine data for seismic imaging General principles of reservoir monitoring: rock saturation, fluid substitution,

measurement repeatability and sensitivity Time-lapse tomography for marine data

Reservoir monitoring and Microseismicity Introduction to Microseismicity: sub-seismic fractures, well stimulation,

instrumented wells Linking production, active and passive seismic imaging by reservoir simulation Microseismicity and large scale earthquake seismology

Recent technologies and promising research topics Electromagnetic methods for oil and brine discrimination Linking reservoir characterization and reservoir simulation Multi-component recording Anisotropy from fractures and layering