Renhai Pu received a B.S. degree in petroleum geology from the Chengdu College of Geology (China) in 1983, an M.S. degree from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) in 1990, and a Ph.D. from Northwest University (China) in 1998. He has been teaching seismic interpretation and sequence stratigraphy in Northwest University (China) for 13 years. His current research interests are in reservoir prediction and exploration of subtle traps.