Interperter's corner; picking philosophy for 3-D stratigraphic interpretation

As interpreters seek to extract more information out of seismic data, they must adapt to 3-D, to workstations, to color display, and to many tools and concepts of stratigraphic and reservoir interpretation. Undoubtedly more and more of our prospects are stratigraphic, and some of us are not adapting fast enough. In this article my concern is picking philosophy. Approaches that are adequate — and well established — for structure mapping will often not work for stratigraphy. Let us consider an all‐too‐common procedure for horizon identification at the start of a project.