Numerical 3D modeling of burial and temperature history, source rock maturity, and hydrocarbon generation in the onshore northeastern Netherlands

Abstract Numerical 3D basin modeling is used to reconstruct the burial and temperature histories in onshore northeastern Netherlands, incorporating four main geological structural elements Groningen Platform, Lauwerszee Trough, Friesland Lower Saxony Basin. The framework based on recently published open access depth surface data; public vitrinite reflectance data from 28 wells are evaluate histories. Four modeled maturity evolution of presented. hydrocarbon generation major source rock intervals Carboniferous, Jurassic, Cretaceous simulated using kinetic literature data. Modeling results indicate highest present-day temperatures maturities Paleozoic sedimentary succession Trough Basin, where deepest occurred. Two phases deep subsequent uplift occurred Carboniferous Permian times Triassic Jurassic. Both strongly influenced maturation transformation kerogen rocks. Mesozoic groups observed depressions between salt diapirs Out two within Mesozoic, Wealden Shale generated hydrocarbons Late times.