Simulating Oil Entrapment in Clastic Sequences

Rationale for simulating oil migration and entrapment in clastic sequences: the continuum of processes in the real world representing space and time; spatial boundaries; decoupling processes; spatial resolution; simplifying processes; scale dependency. Overview of migration and accumulation: source rocks; expulsion from source rocks; secondary migraton; migration rates and efficiency; oil migration pathways; migration under hydrodynamic conditions; segregation and change during migration and entrapment; closing statement. Generating clastic sequences: types of numerical sedimentary simulators; geostatistical simulators; geometric simulators; diffusion simulators; sedimentary process simulators; comparison of numerical sedimentary simulators; utilizing process simulators; spectrum of process simulators; calibrating and controlling process simulators; boundary and initial conditions; initial topography; fluid and sediment discharge rates; eustatic sea level changes; uplift and subsidence; depositional environments; fluvial environments; deltaic environments; oceanic environments; submarine slope failure and turbidity currents; recording sequenes generated by process simulators; cell height; cellualer storage by age; reduction in number of cells; integrating depositional and burial hisotry; limitations in sedimentary process simulation; mathematical representation (Part contents).