THE CONCEPT AND PRINCIPLES OF PETROLEUM SYSTEMS DYNAMICS——NEW THINKING AND METHOD OF BASIN MODELING AND PETROLEUM POOL FORMING DYNAMICS MODELING

The authors advise to border the concept of the petroleum system so that it can apply to the whole petroleum geological unit sequence and become a new geological entity.The petroleum geologist can see the geological entity from the angle of the system-science.It is a combination of a research objective and an abstract model and has a gradational structure as well.The petroleum system is substantially a petroleum pool-forming system.The research methods should be the combination of qualitative and quantitative system method.Considering the non-linearity existing in the petroleum pool-forming process and the current defect commonly existing in the basin modeling and petroleum pool-forming modeling,the authors have tried to recommend the ideas and the methods of system dynamics,introduce the concept of petroleum system dynamics and clarify its basic principles,thus,establish the methods architecture of petroleum system dynamics elementarily.