Because the third version of this ebook, emphasis in the petroleum has shifted from exploration to appraisal and improvement of current hydrocarbon assets. this transformation is mirrored during this new 4th variation, which has been considerably extended to accomodate extra fabric. The centrepiece of the ebook, despite the fact that, continues to be a chain of descriptions, in stratigraphic order, of the depositional historical past and hydrocarbon similar rock devices of the North Sea.Content:
Chapter 1 old assessment of North Sea Exploration (pages 1–41): T. P. Brennand, B. van Hoorn, okay. H. James and ok. W. Glennie
Chapter 2 foundation, improvement and Evolution of Structural kinds (pages 42–84): ok. W. Glennie and J. R. Underhill
Chapter three Devonian (pages 85–103): R. A. Downie
Chapter four Carboniferous (pages 104–136): B. M. Besly
Chapter five reduce Permian—Rotliegend (pages 137–173): ok. W. Glennie
Chapter 6 top Permian—Zechstein (pages 174–211): J. C. M. Taylor
Chapter 7 Triassic (pages 212–244): M. J. Fisher and D. C. Mudge
Chapter eight Jurassic (pages 245–293): J. R. Underhill
Chapter nine Cretaceous (pages 294–349): C. D. Oakman and M. A. Partington
Chapter 10 Cenozoic (pages 350–375): M. B. J. Bowman
Chapter eleven resource Rocks and Hydrocarbons of the North Sea (pages 376–462): C. Cornford
Chapter 12 North Sea performs: Geological Controls on Hydrocarbon Distribution (pages 463–547): H. D. Johnson and M. J. Fisher
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Phillips's Josephine discovery, 30/13-1, was the first in the North Sea to test oil from sands beneath the Chalk.. A flow rate of 128 m J (800 barrels) per day was attained from a thin sand below Historical Review ofNorth Sea Exploration ROCK UNITS 'f] ' . ' 1910 72 '71 74 7. '1' 7. 71 7. 711 ... , '11 '12 ... ' '85 ... '11 "II ... ... , "2 ... ... '91 15 ... .... ~ ~ OHgoC*M W E...... ~ U - .. Cb•• ~ w a: Odin F,lgg Cod Blld.. , ;;) ~ ~ a: I- Z C ~ a: w Q. d Fig. 13 Important oil and gas discoveries and approximate age of reservoir in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, 1967-96.
Since the start of North Sea exploration, a great change has taken place in our understanding of its structural evolution. To account for the development of the North Sea graben systems, working hypotheses changed from the essentially static pre-plate-tectonic structural styles invoked during the 1960s and early 19708 to a debate involving the relative merits of crustal extension in keeping with the pure-shear model of McKenzie (1978) or of Wemike-style listric faulting (Gibbs, 1984a). With the improving quality of 2D seismic, followed by its 3D successor and the evolution of sequence stratigraphy, the earlier imaginative interpretations became much more constrained.
1960 to 1996. Sedimentology 19608 Mid-I 9608 19708 Early 19708 Late 19708 Early 19808 Mid-1980s Late 19808 Early 19908 Heavy minerals-provenance studies; clay mineralogy (SEM. X-ray diffraction) Aeolian/desert studies-Rotliegend palaeogeography Rotliegend diagenesis; clay mineralogy: depth-related diagenesis models Turbidite fans (Forties Fm) Deltaic-paralic (Brent Gp) facies modelling-diagenesis; effects of salt diapirism on sediment deposition (Fulmar) Turbidite fans-Palaeocene-Eocene (Tay, Frigg Fms) fluvial deposits (Triassic, Carboniferous); palaeomagnetism; probabilistic image analysis; cathode luminescence Fission-track dating Sequence-stratigraphy analysis Palynology 19608 Late 19608 Early 19708 Late 19708 Spores/pollen (Palaeozoic, Permo-Triassic, Middle Jurassic, Tertiary Spore coloration (organic maturity); chitinozoa (Palaeozoic); acritarchs (Palaeozoic.