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KronosFlow 2D Kinematics for basin modeling

Unlocking basin modeling in complex geological settings, KronosFlowTM is the mandatory tool to easily and efficiently produce 2D kinematic scenarios for petroleum system assessment.
 
New technology for new challenges

When it comes to assess tectonically complex basins featuring listric, reverse, strike slip faults, thrust folds and/or salt movements, conventional basin models are not sufficient. The vertical shear backstripping method commonly used for basin reconstruction through time reaches its limits and does not allow to properly model the basin deformation history. This type of basins requires a step by step restoration.

KronosFlowTM stands out from other restoration packages through its ability to honor the structural restoration of a basin without compromising the quality of the petroleum system modeling. Featuring a unique and innovative geo-mechanical deformation engine, KronosFlowTM is indeed able to provide geologically accepted scenarios while preserving the deformation of the internal mesh for accurate mass balance. This mesh deformation is critical to take into account properly porous medium deformation, heat transfer, hydrocarbon generation and fluids migration through geological times. It allows in the end quantitative predictions on pressure generation and hydrocarbon accumulations.

Ease of use, interactivity and efficiency

KronosFlowTM aims at finding the perfect balance between structurally acceptable kinematics and productivity. Structural geologists often restore few paleo-sections when in a logic of balancing sections while basin modeling requires many more time steps to be accurate. Ergonomics is thus a critical aspect of this new kind of workflows and KronosFlowTM is a real step-change in terms of user-friendliness and productivity for section restoration.

With ergonomics close to drawing software solutions, KronosFlowTM offers the possibility to derive interactively multiple scenarios, perform backward and forward deformations as well as redrawing when necessary. Most important, tracking every change brought to the model as long as restoration progresses, KronosFlowTM drastically speeds up the work with the possibility to replay a full structural scenario after minor modifications.

This innovative methodology is a major step forward as basin modeling is a discipline involving a lot of uncertainties, structural interpretation and tectonic history being major ones.

Seamless link to TemisFlowTM

Developed on the same OpenFlow® platform, KronosFlowTM is by nature integrated to TemisFlowTM for basin and petroleum system assessment.

TemisFlowTM features all necessary tools to manage lithologies, kerogens and fluids information of KronosFlowTM models, to define faults behavior through time and eventually launch temperature, pressure, expulsion and migration simulations with its new generation simulator ArcTem able to model fluid flow across and along fault planes. All processing tools have been adapted to KronosFlowTM meshes, from log and cell history extractions to the creation of zones of interest and associated reporting.

At last, restoration and simulator are no longer at both extremities of the workflow and iterations between kinematics and simulation results are simplified and straightforward. Combined with TemisFlowTM, KronosFlowTM offers a complete solution for basin modeling in complex geological settings, gathered into one single platform.

 

 

 

Key benefits
  • A kinematic and interactive tool

  • A robust and innovative deformation engine

  • Integrated to TemisFlowTM for basin and petroleum system assessment in complex structural geometries

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2D Section from the Albanides, restored with KronosFlow. Vertical exaggeration x2.

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2D Section from the Albanides, restored with KronosFlow. Vertical exaggeration x2.
Example of deformation definition on a section. All operations are mouse-driven and deformation parameters pre-defined (contact preservation between blocks, length or surface preservation, stiffness of the rock, etc.) so that it is smooth and easy to use.

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Example of deformation definition on a section. All operations are mouse-driven and deformation parameters pre-defined (contact preservation between blocks, length or surface preservation, stiffness of the rock, etc.) so that it is smooth and easy to use.
Example from Gulf of Mexico: Lithology distribution (left) and over pressure calculation (right). This example highlights pressure compartmentalization and connections linked to faults and salt bodies.

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Example from Gulf of Mexico: Lithology distribution (left) and over pressure calculation (right). This example highlights pressure compartmentalization and connections linked to faults and salt bodies.
HC saturation distribution after running a Darcy flow migration with ArcTem simulator. Faults act as drains in this area of Gulf of Mexico. Three cell extractions (red, blue, green) show the timing of migration and accumulation from the carbonate plays (red) to the top of the fault (blue) before lateral migration towards the quaternary play structure (green).

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HC saturation distribution after running a Darcy flow migration with ArcTem simulator. Faults act as drains in this area of Gulf of Mexico. Three cell extractions (red, blue, green) show the timing of migration and accumulation from the carbonate plays (red) to the top of the fault (blue) before lateral migration towards the quaternary play structure (green).
Example of 2D line from Gulf of Mexico treated with KronosFlow.  A kinematic tree records all steps performed along the restoration process.

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Example of 2D line from Gulf of Mexico treated with KronosFlow. A kinematic tree records all steps performed along the restoration process.
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