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CSEG interview

Sven Treitel

Sven Treitel, a name known far and wide in the geophysical world, is the recipient of numerous learned society awards. He has made distinct contributions to exploration geophysics, especially in digital seismic data processing. Treitel delivered the keynote address at the inaugural CSEG Doodle Train week (4 November 2002) in Calgary. His talk brought back memories of how the process of deconvolution evolved and was implemented in the 1960s and 1970s, and became an important tool in seismic data processing in the 1980s and beyond.

Treitel

After his presentation, Treitel met with CSEG Recorder editor Satinder Chopra and with his associates and friends Larry Lines and Sam Gray for the following interview, which first appeared in the January 2003 issue of that journal. It is edited and abridged for publication in TLE with kind permission of CSEG.

Please tell us about your educational background and experience.

I grew up in Argentina. When I finished high school, I decided to go to the United States because of the political situation back home. I was accepted by MIT and Caltech. Caltech seemed to be very far away, and MIT was on the Atlantic coast and closer. That is why I chose MIT. I stayed there for nine years and ended up with a PhD in geophysics in 1958. I decided to go into industrial work because of the academic politics of which I saw a lot as a graduate student. It did not appeal to me, and I thought I would be better off in the industry. And this was really the case until the oil industry entered its most difficult stage about 10 years ago. I began to ask myself if I would have done better to go into the academic world. It was a bit late, but I did . . . [Full Text of this Article]