Abstract
Source rock kinetics reflects kerogen reactivity that controls the onset and rate of hydrocarbon generation as well as the depth/temperature of oil and gas generation windows. Therefore, understanding source rock kinetics is critical to both quantitative resource modeling and identifying production “sweet spots”. The study of source rock kinetics requires special laboratory procedure and expertise, the cost of which limits research on specific source rock systems. For quantitative modeling of hydrocarbon generation, kinetic parameters are often adopted from an analogous source rock system available in published data sets or are automatically picked by basin modeling software based on kerogen type or depositional environment and facies. Recent studies (Peters, K. E., Walters, C. C., and Mankiewicz, P. J. AAPG Bull. 2006, 90, 387−403) revealed that source rock kinetics may vary substantially, even for the same type of kerogen, because of compositional variation. Thus, source-rock-specific kerogen kinetics i...
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