Patent ID: 9514096
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G01V,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A sedimentary basin development method wherein an image describing a geometry of geologic layers forming the basin and a distribution of the sediments within the layers of the sedimentary basin is constructed, comprising: dividing the sedimentary basin into geologic layers with each geologic layer corresponding to a sediment deposition for a given time period; subdividing each geologic layer into a series of climatic layers with each climatic layer being associated with at least one constant climatic parameter; constructing the image describing a geometry of the geologic layers forming the basin by carrying out a computer-implemented iterative stratigraphic simulation, from a past time to a more recent time, within each climatic layer using a computer-implemented stratigraphic model wherein: a sediment transport in a continental domain is modeled using a first nonlinear diffusion equation under a maximum erosion rate constraint; a suspended sediment transport in the marine and lacustrine domain is modeled using an advection-diffusion equation accounting for a particle fall rate and of a marine and lacustrine current velocity; a sediment bottom layer transport in the marine and lacustrine domain is modeled using a second nonlinear diffusion equation under a maximum erosion rate constraint; homogenizing the climatic layers belonging to a single geologic layer to form the geologic layers; and developing the sedimentary basin from the image comprising the homogenized layers to at least one of locate hydrocarbons in the basin, to acquire hydrocarbons from the basin, to store gas, or to store fluids in the basin.