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2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. NP-NP ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Northern North Sea ◽  
The Irish Sea ◽  
Giant Fields ◽  
Gas Fields

Memoir 20 is the most comprehensive reference work on the UK's oil and gas fields available. It updates and substantially extends Memoir 14 (1991), United Kingdom 0il and Gas Fields, one of the Geological Society's best-selling books. This new edition contains updates on many of the ageing giant fields, as well as entries for fields either undiscovered or undeveloped when Memoir 14 was published.The book is divided into nine parts covering the major petroleum provinces both offshore and onshore United Kingdom, from the Gas Basin in the southern North Sea to the Viking Graben in the northern North Sea, from the Atlantic Frontier to the Irish Sea and from the Wessex Basin to the East Midlands. Each part contains a reference map showing field locations. The introductory chapters reveal the stories behind the major plays and discoveries therein, and their tectonic and stratigraphic framework. There are two appendices: tabulated field data and a comprehensive list for all of the UK's 300+ oil and gas fields.

A contribution to the petrophysical knowledge of the Lourinhã Formation as an analogue for the Statfjord Formation in the North Sea oil and gas fields

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. petgeo2019-132
Author(s):  
Marco Ludovico-Marques
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Effective Porosity ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The North ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Northern North Sea ◽  
Gas Fields

The Lourinhã Formation in the western region of Portugal is an analogue for the Statfjord Formation in the oil and gas fields of the Norwegian Northern North Sea. This petrophysics study encompasses a specific sandstone variety (M variety) of the Lourinhã Formation. This lithic arkose shows an average value of effective porosity of 18.5% and a permeability range of 20–30 mD, and is representative of the distribution range in the petrophysics models of the reservoirs of the Statfjord Formation. The petrographical, physical and mechanical characterization of the M variety sandstone is compared with the main features of the oil- and gas-producing sandstones of the Statfjord Formation in a reference well in the Norwegian Northern North Sea. Efficient enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects in the oil and gas fields of the Norwegian Gullfaks hub are always needed, and this study intends to provide a contribution to that endeavour.

25 years of UK North Sea exploration

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Shallow Wells ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gas Fields

Any attempt to summarize 25 years of exploration for petroleum in the UK sector of the North Sea must be a daunting task. The outcome, in terms of the oil and gas fields discovered, is the subject of this volume. This introduction will attempt to outline, very briefly, some of the ups and downs of the exploration history which has led the industry to where it stands today, 25 years on (Fig. 1).When the author was at university in the early 1950s the very idea the the United Kingdom would be likely to become a significant, let alone major world producer of petroleum would have been viewed as utterly ridiculousIt is true that oil and gas indications had been encountered in wells and mines in such disparate areas as sussex, the west Midlands and the Midland Valley of Scotland and as seepages in Dorset, Lancashire and West Lothian, but these had been thoroughly investigated without the discovery of any economically significant oil or gas fields. Indeed, the only economic production at that time came from BP's small east Midlands fields based on Eakring where the first discovery had been made in 1939The first Serious attempt to explore for oil in the United Kingdom was initiated in 1918 for strategic reasons, when 11 relatively shallow wells were drilled on anticlinal features in various parts of the country. of these only one, Hardstoft-1 in Derbyshire, discovered producible oil, but attempts to follow up the discovery were unsuccessful.Exploration then

Field map

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62.1-62
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Gas Fields

AbstractMap depicting the position and names of the main oil and gas fields and undeveloped discoveries located in quadrants 110 and 113 in the East Irish Sea Basin. The boxed areas show the extent of licensed acreage in the region.

Part 3: Sulphate and Carbonate Scale Prediction in North Sea Oil and Gas Fields

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Todd ◽  
M. D. Yuan ◽  
I. R. McCracken
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Gas Fields

The tectonic and stratigraphic framework of the United Kingdom's oil and gas fields

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Underhill
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Gas Fields

AbstractOnshore exploration success during the first half of the 20th century led to petroleum production from many, relatively small oil and gas accumulations in areas like the East Midlands, North Yorkshire and Midland Valley of Scotland. Despite this, the notion that exploration of the United Kingdom's continental shelf (UKCS) might lead to the country having self-sufficiency in oil and gas production would have been viewed as extremely fanciful as recently as the late 1950s. Yet as we pass into the new century, only thirty-five years on from the drilling of the first offshore well, that is exactly the position Britain finds itself in. By 2001, around three million barrels of oil equivalent were being produced each day from 239 fields. The producing fields have a wide geographical distribution, occur in a number of discrete sedimentary basins and contain a wide spectrum of reservoirs that were originally deposited in diverse sedimentary and stratigraphic units ranging from Devonian to Eocene in age. Although carbonates are represented, the main producing horizons have primarily proved to be siliciclastic in nature and were deposited in environments ranging from aeolian and fluviatile continental red beds, coastal plain, nearshore beach and shelfal settings all the way through to deep-marine, submarine fan sediments. This chapter attempts to place each of the main producing fields into their proper stratigraphic, tectonic and sedimentological context in order to demonstrate how a wide variety of factors have successfully combined to produce each of the prospective petroleum play fairways and hence, make the UKCS such a prolific and important petroleum province.

scholarly journals About this title

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. NP-NP ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Moray Firth ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration And Production ◽  
Gas Fields

The United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields has been produced to commemorate the first 25 years of hydrocarbon exploration and production in the United Kingdom North Sea. The result of this exploration has produced many benefits for the UK, its government and industry but above all for geologists and geophysicists, Articles on the 64 oil and gas fields discovered on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf are given in a standardized layout to provide easy to use databook for the petroleum geologist and geophysicist. The producing oil and gas fields have been arranged into:the Viking Graben, the Central Graben and Moray Firth, the Southern Gas Basin and Morecambe Basin. Also included are two introductory articles, the first sets the fields in a historical perspect!ve and the second places them in a stratigraphic framework.

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