Modeling Basin-Scale Geomechanics Through Geological Time

Geomechanics is commonly applied with reservoir or wellbore scale data to predict near well stresses and strains for well<br>design for appraisal and production wells. The common basic model is a stress-strain simulator based on an “irreversible nonlinear<br>elasticity” approach. In this paper, a new simulator type is presented which enables an extension to basin-scale<br>geomechanics in dynamically evolving models through geologic time.