Research
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BPSM Scientists and Graduate Students work on a variety of problems in basin and petroleum system modeling. These problems are organized here by research topic and by geographic area. A research topic covers themes both broad and specific in scope that can be applied to many modeling scenarios in different geographic areas. Most of these research topics are placed in their sedimentary basin and petroleum system context in the geographic area section to determine their applicability to other settings. A geographic area is a sedimentary basin or tectonic setting where a research topic is applied to a basin and petroleum system modeling case study.
Student Research
Fault Seal

Geomechanical basin modeling for stress and pore pressure prediction by constraining evolving properties of seal rocks through stress-induced permeability

Prediction of off-fault deformation from experimental fault structure using convolutional neural networks

Interdisciplinary approaches with geological and physical constraints to assess Earth properties

Machine learning for geological image analysis

Validating Compositional Chemical Kinetics for Basin Modeling of the Vaca Muerta Formation in the Neuquen Basin

Modeling the Chemical Origin of CO2

Forward modeling of carbonate platforms

The role of tectonics in the evolution of petroleum systems in the sedimentary basins - BPSM Group

Gas Hydrates Studies

Principal Scientist Research
Chemical kinetic models

Integrated workflows for improved understanding of the subsurface

Studies in Alaska North Slope

Hosford Scheirer, A., and K. J. Bird, 2020, A lateral well in the Shublik Formation, Alaska North Slope, with implications for development of unconventional resource potential: Interpretation, v. 8, p. SJ36-SJ49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/INT-2019-0186.1.
Quantitative Evaluation Rules for Programmed Pyrolysis Data Greatly Improve Their Reliability

Petroleum System Investigative Research

Quantifying multiple source rock contributions to petroleum fluids: bias in using compound ratios and neglecting the gas fraction
