BasinMod 1-D

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Product Overview

The primary function of BasinMod 1-D is to construct a geological model of stratigraphy versus time (burial history) and a thermal history in order to evaluate hydrocarbon potential of a single location. In addition to prediction of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion, a wide range of other values are calculated, such as maturity, porosity, permeability, pressure and temperature that can be used in petroleum systems analysis.

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BasinMod 1-D:

Calculates geohistory/burial history, thermal history, maturation, pressure, and timing of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion.
Used by more than 2,000 professionals worldwide.

Burial History:

Handles complex stratigraphy, including unconformities and faults.
Several calculation methods for compaction, porosity, permeability, and maturity.
Mix pure lithologies from the available lithology set to create new lithologies.
Delta Porosity models porosity enhancement or reduction, independent of compaction.
Delta Thickness models changes in formation thickness due to salt or shale movement (diapirs).
Display burial history plots with lithologies, isotherms, maturity windows or kinetics windows, subsidence curves, or with a model value displayed in continuous color.

Maturity displayed on burial history as continuous color.

Maturity vs. Depth plot with measured Maturity and Maturity Windows.

Cumulative HC vs. Time showing both in-situ and expelled amounts for oil and gas.

Chemical Compaction and Pressure:

Porosity reduction options allow modelling of chemical compaction including quartz cementation, smectite-illite, and generic compaction. Read more information about chemical compaction.
The pressure module calculates pore fluid pressure to predict the timing and/or depth of abnormal pressure regimes as well as subsequent fracturing. Read more information about pressure.

Faulting:

Models Simple Normal Faults, Growth Faults, Simple Thrust and Reverse Faults, Blind Thrusts, Imbricate Thrusts, Pop-Ups and Flower Structures.
See the "Faulted plots" in the Sample Plots section to see output using BasinMod 1-D Faulting.

Thermal History:

Add temperature data to model thermal maturation and predict timing of hydrocarbon generation/expulsion.
Calculate heat flow from BHT data.
Model basement heat flow, radiogenic heat flow, and rifting heat flow.
Vary surface temperature and heat flow through time.
Reference on-line surface temperature and heat flow data.
Use Fission Track Analysis for paleotemperature analysis.

Maturity:

Use LLNL, Simple Ro, or Lopatin TTI maturity.
Set and label ranges for maturity windows.
Choose from several maturity indicators used for calibration, such as %Ro, TMAX, TAI, and biomarkers.

Kinetic modelling of hydrocarbon generation:

Model one component of oil and gas using simple LLNL kinetics or organofacies kinetics (Pepper and Corvi, 1995).
Model multiple components of oil, gas, and residue using LLNL N-component kinetics.
Access on-line library of kerogens compiled from public literature including multiple variants of Type I, II, and III.
Edit or create new kerogens.
Mix kerogens.

Expulsion:

Define expulsion efficiency in terms of %Ro or Transformation Ratio.
Use the saturation method to expel hydrocarbons once a certain percentage of pore space has been saturated.

Output:

Generate standard and continuous color burial history plots.
Plot any value versus age, depth, or seismic time.
Click and copy points from X vs. Time or X vs. Depth graphs and paste directly into Excel.
Generate XY cross plots of most model values.
Generate reports for any depth step.
Generate sensitivity reports and plots.
Display geochemical logs of pyrolysis data.
Use Rock Evaluation Expert System Analysis (REESA).
Generate hardcopy using Windows® device drivers.
Export CGM in ZEH® Graphics format.

Optional Modules Include:

BasinView Mapping and Integration

System requirements