Petroleum and Basin Evolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIV

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2. Introduction

   • Dietrich H. Welte, Brian Horsfield, Donald R. Baker

   Pages 1-2

3. Basin Simulation and the Design of the Conceptual Basin Model

   • H. S. Poelchau, D. R. Baker, Th. Hantschel, B. Horsfield, B. Wygrala

   Pages 3-70

4. Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins

   • M. N. Yalçin, R. Littke, R. F. Sachsenhofer

   Pages 71-167

5. Maturation and Petroleum Generation

   • M. Radke, B. Horsfield, R. Littke, J. Rullkötter

   Pages 169-229

6. Kinetics of Petroleum Formation and Cracking

   • H. J. Schenk, B. Horsfield, B. Krooss, R. G. Schaefer, K. Schwochau

   Pages 231-269

7. Deposition of Petroleum Source Rocks

   • R. Littke, D. R. Baker, J. Rullkötter

   Pages 271-333

8. The Bulk Composition of First-Formed Petroleum in Source Rocks

   • B. Horsfield

   Pages 335-402

9. Petroleum Migration: Mechanisms, Pathways, Efficiencies and Numerical Simulations

   • U. Mann, T. Hantschel, R. G. Schaefer, B. Krooss, D. Leythaeuser, R. Littke et al.

   Pages 403-520

10. Back Matter

    Pages 521-535

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This book has been prepared by the collaborative effort of two somewhat separate technical groups: the researchers at the Institute for Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jii­ lich (KFA), and the technical staff of Integrated Exploration Systems (IES). One of us, Donald R. Baker, from Rice University, Houston, has spent so much time at KFA as a guest scientist and researcher that it is most appropriate for him to contribute to the book. During its more than 20-year history the KFA group has made numerous and significant contributions to the understanding of petroleum evolution. The KFA researchers have emphasized both the field and laboratory approaches to such important problems as source rock recognition and evaluation, oil and gas generation, maturation of organic matter, expulsion and migration of hydrocarbons, and crude oil composition and alteration. IES Jiilich has been a leader in the development and application of numerical simulation (basin modeling) procedures. The cooperation between the two groups has resulted in a very fruitful synergy effect both in the development of modeling software and in its application. The purpose of the present volume developed out of the 1994 publication by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists of a collection of individually authored papers entitled The Petroleum System - From Source to Trap, edited by L. B. Magoon and W. G. Dow.

• Petroleum
• Sediment
• basin modelling
• fluid-flow
• geochemistry
• kerogen
• kinetics
• maturation
• modeling
• numerical simulation
• organofacies
• source rocks
• transport processes
• mineral resources

• Institut für Erdöl und Organische Geochemie (ICG-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

  Dietrich H. Welte, Brian Horsfield

• Department of Geology and Geophysics, The Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University, Houston, USA

  Donald R. Baker

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