By Neil Hodgson, Karyna Rodriguez and Lauren Found, Searcher
In the hunt for oil and gas, explorationists work in convolution space between the sensory, observable or empirical world, and the conceptual constructs of idealized systems. Here we investigate several of the world’s most hydrocarbon-exciting basins where modern high-resolution 3D seismic allows spatial and temporal observations of phenomena attributed to fluid-flow, to determine if these may be correlated with the causal mechanistic basin-models that constrain generation as we seek to understand how hydrocarbons are forged and released into the thick, dark cycles beneath the crust.