Postgraduate Course: Quantitative Interpretation (PGGE11175)

Course Outline
School	School of Geosciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course is designed to allow students to apply the concepts in the Rock Physics course in a practical context. It introduces students to a recent industry development, and builds on significant research expertise in Edinburgh. It is intended to have a component of workstation based learning, which will improve students' appreciation of current industry software capabilities.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
1. Principles of Amplitude-versus-offset (AVO) analysis: Information content, AVO inversion, traditional crossplot analysis, attributes and Fluid-Factor analysis. 2. Rock Physics templates and Seismic litho-facies. 3. Probabilistic Inversion and Statistical Rock Physics. 4. Thin bed effects and frequency-dependent AVO. 5. Practical exercise applying the concepts to industrial data.