Title: A Quantitative Basin Analysis System for Petroleum Exploration
Abstract: A computer-based Quantitative Basin Analysis System (QBAS) has been developed for the study of sedimentary basins. The QBAS consists of three major components: database, data processing, and modeling. Usually available data in a sedimentary basin, such as stratigraphic picks, core analyses, drillstem tests, analyses of organic matter, bottomhol temperatures, and analyses of formation waters, are stored and manipulated in a relational well database. The data are processed and synthesized to higher levels using different graphical and mathematical techniques. The data processing also provides the regional and local scale information of geological, geochemical, geophysical, geothermal, and hydrogeological parameters which are prerequisites for basin modeling. In the modeling module, both one- and two-dimensional models are used for the simulation of sediment compaction and fluid flow, and for the reconstruction of burial history; a thermal inversion method is used for the reconstruction of thermal history; and a kinetic approach is used for the simulation of hydrocarbon generation from organic matter. Hubbert’s method is used for the evaluation of hydrodynamic entrapment of hydrocarbons. The QBAS provides the explorationists with the past and present-day conditions in a sedimentary basin in terms of geology, geothermics, hydrogeology, and hydrocarbon generation, migration, and accumulation.
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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