A new geomechnical tool for the evaluation of hydrocarbon trap integrity.

油气勘探钻井本质上是一项高风险、高成本的作业。即使发现了潜在的储层，在最近的地质活动下，由于上覆或邻近岩石的破坏，圈闭仍有可能破裂和泄漏。该项目将开发一种基于当前预测技术和数值模拟方法的技术，为四个重要的含油气盆地建立一系列地下地质力学模型。这种新的综合地质力学方法将提高目前探测破裂圈闭的预测能力，从而提高澳大利亚主要石油省份的勘探前景。

Hydrocarbon exploration drilling is an intrinsically high risk, high cost activity. Even once a potential reservoir is located there remains the possibility that under recent geological activity the trap has become breached and leaked due to failure of overlying or adjacent rock. This Project will develop a technique that builds on current predictive techniques, and numerical modelling methods, to produce a series of sub-surface geomechanical models for four important petroleum basins. This new and integrated geomechanical approach will improve current predictive capabilities for detecting breached traps, thus enhancing prospectivity in the major petroleum provinces of Australia.