Stanford University Basin and Petroleum System Modeling (BPSM)

Industrial Affiliates Program November 5, 2010

Allegra Hosford Scheirer allegras@stanford.edu

http://bpsm.stanford.edu

Who Am I?

•  Research Geophysicist here at Stanford for 2+ years—hired explicitly for BPSM

•  Research Geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey for 5.5 years; 3D geologic modeling, resource assessment

•  Field geophysicist (offshore & onshore) •  Ph.D. from MIT-WHOI, 2001

BPSM Activities

•  Advise 4-6 graduate students weekly •  Coordinate and participate in all BPSM training •  Coordinate software acquisition and licensing •  Liaise with affiliates and prospective affiliates •  Research •  Update website, http://bpsm.stanford.edu

BPSM Students

•  “Hybrid” students who combine basin modeling with other fields, such as stratigraphy-sedimentology-structure, rock physics, geostatistics, and geochemistry

•  Currently we have 6 graduate students that are fully or partly dedicated to BPSM

•  Summer 2010 internships at Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Nexen, and Statoil

BPSM Students, continued

•  Tess Menotti and Blair Burgreen: AAPG Foundation Grants-in-Aid Awards, 2010

•  Tess Menotti and Meng He: presented basin models at AAPG-PS, 2010

•  Meng He: best poster for that meeting! •  Inquire about data from Aera, Chevron, BP,

Trio, Veneco, USGS, Schlumberger, Black Coral, GNS Science, myriad academics and consultants

BPSM Training

•  GES 255 “Basin and Petroleum System Modeling”, Ken Peters, lead instructor

•  Guest instructors include: Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Les Magoon, Tapan Mukerji, Carolyn Lampe (ucon), Noelle Schoellkopf (Chevron), Oliver Schenk (SLB)

Where GES255 fits in the BPSM Curriculum

Approximate Course Schedule (1) Lectures T and Th 11:00 am - 12:50 pm, Lab Th 1:30 - 4:05 pm

Date Topic Reading Speaker Lab

9/21 Introduction Hantschel&Kauerauf09 1-30, Roberts05, Al-Hajeri09 Peters N/A

9/23* Alaska N. Slope 3D Model H&K09 247-335, Hantschel00 Schenk Schenk

9/28 Migration and Accumulation Magoon04, Higley06, PetersCassa94 Schenk N/A

9/30* Petroleum Systems Allen&Allen05 349-366, Swarbrick02, [Giles98, H&K 30-101]

Peters 1D PetroMod tutorial chapters 1-4

10/5 Geohistory Analysis H&K 103-149, Allen&Allen05 366-401 Peters N/A

10/7* Boundary Conditions (Heat Flow)

IntroSJB(AHS), [Magoon09, Peters07Ch11] Peters Lab exercise

10/12 San Joaquin Model Peters08Ch12 Scheirer/Magoon N/A

10/14* San Joaquin ModeI BeardsmoreCull01 73-89 Scheirer 1D models, SJB

10/19 Boundary Conditions (PWD, SWIT) none Peters N/A

10/21* Midterm Scheirer 2D PetroMod basic tutorial

*Afternoon lab, H&K = Hantschel and Kauerauf (2009) Reference in “Getting Started” CD (Peters, 2009) [Not required], Peters business travel possible +BPSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting 11/5-11/6

Approximate Course Schedule (2) Date Topic Reading Speaker Lab

10/26 Source Rock Analysis, RE/TOC H&K 151-196, Peters05TOC 97-100 Peters N/A

10/28* TOC Reconstruction Peters06KIN Peters 2D PetroMod advanced

11/2 Chemical Reaction Kinetics TBD (affiliate speakers) Peters N/A

11/4*+ Two Industry Reps, BPSM Affiliates Program

H&K 199-243(fluid), diPrimio06 Guest lectures 2D SJ-6 line/

exercise

11/9 Fluid Analysis and PVT none Lampe N/A

11/11* Calibration (Easy%Ro) PetersNelson10 Peters 3D PetroMod basic

11/16 Calibration (Past and Present Temperature)

H&K 341-378, [381-404], [Wendebourg05]

Peters N/A

11/18* Risk Assessment Kroeger08 Mukerji 3D PetroMod advanced

11/22-26 Stanford Recess -- -- N/A

11/30 Case Studies none Scheirer/Magoon N/A

12/2* Review, Finals week 12/6-9 none Peters LAB FINAL?

Main textbook is Hantschel and Kauerauf, 2009, Fundamentals of Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling

BPSM Training, continued

•  GES xxx “Exploratory Data Analysis for Basin and Petroleum System Modeling”, Allegra Hosford Scheirer and Tapan Mukerji, instructors

•  Provide fundamentals of various equations used in basin modeling (heat flow, fluid flow, compaction, etc.)

•  Hands-on programming!

BPSM Training, continued

•  Week-long training conducted by Oliver Schenk, December, 2009, for BPSM community

•  One-on-one consulting: Oliver Schenk, Carolyn Lampe, Robert Tscherny, Noelle Schoellkopf, 2010

•  Attend PetroMod Users’ Meeting, Scheirer/Peters/He, November, 2010

BPSM Software •  Primary software product is PetroMod®

•  Provided by Schlumberger (30 licenses) •  We train both dedicated BPSM graduate

students as well as other interested geoscientists at Stanford

•  Other products: Petrel, ArcGIS, MATLAB, Excel, EarthVision®

BPSM Affiliates

•  Currently, we have 5 affiliates

San Joaquin Basin

USGS Professional Paper 1713 http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1713

Ongoing and Future Research

•  Mine software output for “basic” research, e.g. SJB subsidence analysis

•  Develop quantitative, reproducible techniques for data input to modeling software

•  Develop techniques to represent uncertainties in geologic surfaces

•  Improve methods for model calibration

BPSM Website

•  http://bpsm.stanford.edu •  A dynamic site including research,

publications, student news •  Password-protected area for affiliates •  A BPSM one-stop shop…