Stratigraphic modeling of sedimentary basins

Journal Article · Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1990 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA)

OSTI ID:5746640

Aigner, T ^[1]; Lawrence, D T ^[2]

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1. Shell Research B. V., Rijswijk (Netherlands)
2. Shell Development Co., Houston, TX (USA)

A two-dimensional stratigraphic forward model has been successfully applied and calibrated in clastic, carbonate, and mixed clastic/carbonate regimes. Primary input parameters are subsidence, sea level, volume of clastics, and carbonate growth potential. Program output includes sequence geometries, facies distribution lithology distribution, chronostratigraphic plots, burial history plots, thermal and maturity histories, and crossplots. The program may be used to predict reservoir distribution, to constrain interpretations of well and seismic data, to rapidly test exploration scenarios in frontier basins, and to evaluate the fundamental controls on observed basin stratigraphy. Applications to data sets from Main Pass (US Gulf Coast), Offshore Sarawak (Malaysia), Rub'al Khali basin (Oman), Paris basin (France), and Baltimore Canyon (US East Coast) demonstrate that the program can be used to simulate stratigraphy on a basin-wide scale as well as on the scale of individual prospects.

• OSTI ID: 5746640
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA), Vol. 74:11; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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