Polygonal faults and their influence on deep-water sandstone reservoir geometries, Alba field, United Kingdom central North Sea

AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 410-432

  Lonergan, Lidia ^b   Cartwright, Joe A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUDSTONES; POLYGONAL FAULTS;

OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

FAULT; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0033101479     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Alexander, R. W. S., K. Schofield, and M. C. Williams, 1993, Understanding the Eocene reservoirs of the Forth field, UKCS Block 9/23b, in A. M. Spencer, ed., Generation, accumulation and production of Europe's hydrocarbons III: European Association of Petroleum Geoscientists Special Publication, p. 3-15.
2. Alsop, G. I., 1996, Physical modelling of fold and fracture geometries associated with salt diapirism, in G. I. Alsop, D. J. Blundell, and I. Davidson, eds., Salt tectonics: Geological Society Special Publication 100, p. 227-241.
3. Armstrong, L. A., A. Ten Haven, and H. D. Johnson, 1987, The geology of the Gannet fields, central North Sea, UK sector, in J. Brooks and K. Glennie, eds., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: London, Graham and Trotman, p. 533-548.
4. Brewster, J., 1991, The Frigg field, Block 10/1, UK North Sea, and 25/1, Norwegian North Sea, in I. L. Abbotts, ed., United Kingdom oil and gas fields, 25 years commemorative volume: Geological Society Memoir 14, p. 117-126.
5. Brooke, C. M., T. J. Trimble, and T. A. Mackay, 1995, Mounded shallow gas sands from the Quaternary of the North Sea: analogues for the formation of sand mounds in deep water Tertiary sediments?, in A. J. Hartley and D. J. Prosser, eds., Characterisation of deep marine clastic systems: Geological Society Special Publication 94, p. 95-101.
6. Cartwright, J. A., 1994a, Episodic basin-wide fluid expulsion from geopressured shale sequence in the North Sea Basin: Geology, v. 22, p. 447-450.
7. Cartwright, J. A., 1994b, Episodic basin-wide hydrofracturing of overpressured early Cenozoic mudrock sequences in the North Sea Basin: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 11, p. 587-607.
8. Cartwright, J. A., 1996, Polygonal fault systems: a new type of fault structure revealed by 3-D seismic data from the North Sea Basin, in P. Weimer and T. L. Davis, eds., Applications of 3-D seismic data to exploration and production: AAPG Studies in Geology 42 and SEG Geophysical Developments Series 5, p. 225-230.
9. Cartwright, J. A., and L. Lonergan, 1996, Volumetric contraction during the compaction of mudrocks: a mechanism for the development of regional-scale polygonal fault systems: Basin Research, v. 8, p. 183-193.
10. Cartwright, J. A., and D. N. Dewhurst, 1998, Layer-bound compaction faults in fine-grained sediments: Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 110, p. 1242-1257.
11. Clausen, O. R., and J. A. Korstgård, 1993, Small scale faulting as an indicator of deformation mechanism in the Tertiary sediments of the northern Danish Central Trough: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 15, p. 1343-1358.
12. Damuth, J. E., R. D. Flood, C. Pirmez, and P. L. Manley, 1995, Architectural elements and depositional processes of Amazon deep sea fan imaged by long-range side-scan sonar (GLORIA), bathymetric swath mapping (Sea Beam), high resolution seismic and piston core data, in K. T. Pickering, R. N. Hiscott, N. H. Kenyon, F. Ricci Lucchi, and R. D. A. Smith, eds., Atlas of deep water environments: London, Chapman and Hall, p. 105-121.
13. de Sitter, L. U., 1956, Structural geology: London, McGraw-Hill, 552 p.
14. Dixon, R. J., K. Schofield, R. Anderton, A. D. Reynolds, R. W. S. Alexander, M. C. Williams, and K. G. Davies, 1995, Sandstone diapirism and clastic intrusion in the Tertiary submarine fans of the Bruce-Beryl Embayment, Quadrant 9, UKCS, in A. J. Hartley and D. J. Prosser, eds., Characterisation of deep marine clastic systems: Geological Society of London Special Publication 94, p. 77-94.
15. Galloway, W. E., J. L. Garber, Xijin Liu, and B. J. Sloan, 1993, Sequence stratigraphic and depositional framework of the Cenozoic fill, central and northern North Sea Basin, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society, London, p. 33-43.
16. Harding, A. W., T. J. Humphrey, A. Latham, M. K. Lunsford, and M. H. Strider, 1990, Controls on Eocene submarine fan deposition in the Witch Ground graben, in R. F. P. Hardman and J. Brooks, eds., Tectonic events responsible for Britain's oil and gas reserves: Geological Society of London Special Publication 55, p. 353-367.
17. Henriet, J. P., M. De Batist, and M. Verschuren, 1991, Early fracturing of Palaeogene clays, southernmost North Sea: relevance to mechanisms of primary hydrocarbon migration, in A. M. Spencer, ed., Generation, accumulation and production of Europe's hydrocarbons: European Association of Petroleum Geoscientists, Special Publication 1, p. 217-227.
18. Hesse, R., 1995, Long distance correlation of spillover turbidites on the western levee of the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC), Labrador Sea, in K. T. Pickering, R. N. Hiscott, N. H. Kenyon, F. Ricci Lucchi, and R. D. A. Smith, eds., Atlas of deep water environments: London, Chapman and Hall, p. 276-281.
19. Higgs, W. G., and K. R. McClay, 1993, Analogue sandbox modelling of Miocene extensional faulting in the Outer Moray Firth, in G. D. Williams and A. Dobb, eds., Tectonics and seismic sequence stratigraphy: Geological Society Special Publication 71, p. 141-162.
20. Jenssen, A. I., D. Bergslien, M. Rye-Larsen, and R. M. Lindholm, 1993, Origin of complex mound geometry of Paleocene submarine-fan sandstone reservoirs, Balder field, Norway, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society, p. 135-143.
21. Lonergan, L., J. Cartwright, R. Laver, and J. Staffurth, 1998a, Polygonal faulting in the Tertiary of the central North Sea - implications for reservoir geology, in M. P. Coward, T. S. Daltaban, and H. Johnson, eds., Structural geology in reservoir characterization: Geological Society of London Special Publication 127, p. 191-207.
22. Lonergan, L., J. Cartwright, and R. Jolly, 1998b, The geometry of polygonal fault systems in Tertiary mudrocks of the North Sea: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 20, p. 529-548.
23. Maltman, A., ed., 1995, The geological deformation of sediments: London, Chapman and Hall, 362 p.
24. Masson, D. G., N. H. Kenyon, J. V. Gardner, and M. E. Field, 1995, Monterey Fan: channel and overbank morphology, in K. T. Pickering, R. N. Hiscott, N. H. Kenyon, F. Ricci Lucchi, and R. D. A. Smith, eds., Atlas of deep water environments: London, Chapman and Hall, p. 74-79.
25. Mattingly, G. A., and H. H. Bretthauer, 1992, The Alba field; a middle Eocene deep water channel system in the UK North Sea, in M. T. Halbouty, ed., Giant oil and gas fields of the decade 1978-1988: AAPG Memoir 54, p. 78-88.
26. Newman, M. St. J., M. L. Reeder, A. H. W. Woodruff, and I. R. Hatton, 1993, The geology of the Gryphon oil field, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society, p. 123-133.
27. Newton, S. K., and K. P. Flanagan, 1993, The Alba field: evolution of the depositional model, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society, p. 161-171.
28. Nichols, R. J., 1995, The liquification and remobilization of sandy sediments, in A. J. Hartley and D. J. Prosser, eds., 1995, Characterisation of deep marine clastic systems: Geological Society Special Publication 94, p. 63-76.
29. Parker, J. R., 1975, Lower Tertiary sand development in the central North Sea, in A. W. Woodland, ed., Petroleum and the continental shelf of north-west Europe 1. Geology: Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 447-453.
30. Parker, T. J., and A. N. McDowell, 1951, Scale models as a guide to interpretation of salt-dome faulting: AAPG Bulletin, v. 35, p. 2076-2094.
31. Pickering, K. T., J. D. Clarke, R. D. A. Smith, R. N. Hiscott, F. Ricci Lucchi, and N. H. Kenyon, 1995, Architectural element analysis of turbidite systems and selected topical problems for sand-prone deep-water systems, in K. T. Pickering, R. N. Hiscott, N. H. Kenyon, F. Ricci Lucchi, and R. D. A. Smith, eds., Atlas of deep water environments: London, Chapman and Hall, p. 1-10.
32. Rye-Larsen, M., 1994, The Balder field: refined reservoir interpretation with the aid of high resolution seismic data and seismic attribute mapping, in J. O. Aasen, E. Berg, A. T. Buller, O. Hjelmeland, R. M. Holt, J. Kleppe, and O. Torsæter, eds., North Sea oil and gas reservoirs III: Amsterdam, Kluwer, p. 115-124.
33. Shanmugam, G., R. B. Bloch, S. M. Mitchell, G. W. J. Beamish, R. J. Hodgkinson, J. E. Damuth, T. Straume, S. E. Syvertsen, and K. E. Shields, 1995, Basin-floor fans in the North Sea: sequence stratigraphic models vs. sedimentary facies: AAPG Bulletin, v. 79, p. 477-512.
34. Surlyk, F., 1987, Slope and deep shelf gully sandstones, Upper Jurassic, East Greenland: AAPG Bulletin, v. 71, p. 464-475.
35. Timbrell, G., 1993, Sandstone architecture of the Balder Formation depositional system, UK Quadrant 9 and adjacent areas, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society, p. 107-121.
36. Vining, B. A., N. S. Ioannides, and K. T. Pickering, 1993, Stratigraphic relationships of some lowstand depositional systems in the central North Sea, in J. R. Parker, ed., Petroleum geology of northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Geological Society, p. 17-29.
37. Weaver, P. P. E., D. G. Masson, D. E. Gunn, R. B. Kidd, R. G. Rothwell, and D. A. Maddison, 1995, Sediment mass wasting in the Canary basin, in K. T. Pickering, R. N. Hiscott, N. H. Kenyon, F. Ricci Lucchi, and R. D. A. Smith, eds., Atlas of deep water environments: London, Chapman and Hall, p. 287-296.