Finding hydrocarbons in the classroom using “free” seismic interpretation software

At Michigan Technological University, we recently introduced a new course in seismic processing and interpretation at the senior undergraduate and graduate student level. In this course, we made use of Seismic Un*x from Colorado School of Mines (see article by Stockwell in this issue for details) and a readily‐available “demo” version of SeisVision 2.1 from GeoGraphix, a Landmark Company. The processing portion of this class, about seven weeks, took the students through velocity analysis and stacking of a data set.