Measurements of seafloor heat flow can be used to determine the thermal state of the underlying seabed over length scales from tens of meters to multiple kilometers‚ from which inferences may be drawn about the thermal evolution (maturation) of any given region of the seafloor through time. Thermal conditions within potential reservoirs below the seafloor can be calculated by utilizing heat flow‚ seismic‚ and sediment physical property data as inputs into numerical models of heat transport. Collectively‚ these data provide valuable insights into understanding regional hydrodynamics and the possible nature and type of hydrocarbon occurrence at depth.
Blue bird Geoscience offers offshore supervision of data acquisition. It also links clients to new academic research‚ up–to–date processing‚ and modeling of present day and historic geothermal gradients‚ however complex the structure and geological history of a frontier basin.