The Norwegian Petroleum Society's conference Basin Modelling: Advances and Applications attracted nearly 100 papers, 49 of which are published in this volume. Included are major overview papers, discussions of controls on basin thermal history, controls on hydrocarbon generation, and primary and secondary migration of hydrocarbons. Case histories from the Norwegian shelf and many other basins worldwide are presented, containing state-of-the-art basin modelling techniques. Petroleum geologists and exploration geochemists should be interested in this volume.