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Woods
Hole
Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA |
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Research Projects
Global Basins Research Network (GBRN)
The Global Basins Research Network (GBRN)
was founded in 1990 to model the
movement of fluids in sedimentary basins. It
is a consortium of
academic institutions
and private companies ,
with support from a number of U.S. and foreign-based
oil companies .
Together these groups are working to:
- electronically compile comprehensive data (a data cube) on a process-representative portion of the Gulf of Mexico Basin,
- develop and test process models capable of simulating
the coupled physical and chemical processes that have occurred and are
occurring in the data cube, and
- make the data and modeling capability
available to the principal research institutions and corporate sponsors on
modern workstations using Internet.
The Global Basins Research Network (GBRN)
is dedicated to understanding the operation of
sedimentary basins
as chemical reactors. This is difficult
not only because these basins are hundreds of kilometers in size, but
also because their operation links many different processes, each of
which has become a separate scientific discipline. The ultimate goal of the
research is to develop a general methodology of process visualization/modeling
which can be applied to understanding fluid flow processes in any sedimentary
basin.
The Woods Hole
Petroleum Organic Geochemistry Group
is responsible for
integrating new and existing organic geochemistry data into both the data
cube and modeling parts of the GBRN. Almost all of the Woods Hole GBRN
work to date has been funded solely from our current DoE Basic Energy
Sciences grant. Data from the Woods Hole hydrous pyrolysis experiments,
along with existing literature data on kinetics of oil and gas generation
and migration will be incorporated into
three dimensional process models currently under development on the
supercomputer at Cornell.
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