A sedimentological approach to refining reservoir architecture in a mature hydrocarbon province: The Brent Province, UK North Sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 457-484

  Hampson, Gary J ^a   Sixsmith, Peter J ^a   Johnson, Howard D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brent Group; Broom formation; Ninian Hutton Dunlin system; Reservoir architecture; Sequence stratigraphy; Tarbet formation

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURE;

DATA REDUCTION; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRENT FIELD; NORTH SEA;

EID: 2542423116     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(03)00094-1     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Besly B.M. Fielding C.R. Palaeosols in Westphalian coal-bearing and red bed sequences, central and northern England Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology 70 1989 303-330
2. Brown S. Richards P.C. Facies and development of the Middle Jurassic Brent Delta near the northern limit of its progradation, UK North Sea Whateley M.K.G. Pickering K.T. Deltas: Sites and traps for fossil fuels Geological Society of London, Special Publication 41 1989 253-268
3. Brown S. Richards P.C. Thomson A.R. Patterns in the deposition of the Brent Group (Middle Jurassic), UK North Sea Brooks J. Glennie K. Petroleum geology of Northwest Europe 1987 899-913 Graham and Trotman London
4. Bruaset V. Båtevik A. Jakobsen K.G. Helland-Hansen W. An anomalous thick, elongated sandbody, Tarbert Formation, Gullfaks Field: High accommodation fluvial channel stacking, incised valley deposition or both? (abstract) Palaeozoic to Recent sedimentary environments, offshore Norway 1999 Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPF) Oslo pp. 101-104
5. Bryant I.D. Livera S.E. Identification of unswept oil volumes in a mature field by using integrated data analysis: Ness Formation, Brent Field, UK North Sea Spencer A.M. Generation, accumulation and production of Europe's hydrocarbons European Association of Petroleum Geologists, Special Publication 1 1991 75-88
6. Budding M.C. Inglin H.F. A reservoir geological model of the Brent Sands in southern Cormorant Illing V. Hobson G.D. Petroleum geology of the continental shelf of north-west Europe 1981 326-334 Institute of Petroleum London
7. Davies S.J. Dawers N.H. McLeod A.E. Underhill J.R. The structural and sedimentological evolution of early syn-rift successions: The Middle Jurassic Tarbert Formation, North Sea Basin Research 12 2000 343-365
8. Davies R.J. Turner J.D. Underhill J.R. Sequential dip-slip fault movement during rifting: A new model for the evolution of the Jurassic trilete North Sea rift system Petroleum Geoscience 7 2001 371-388
9. Dawers N.H. Underhill J.R. The role of fault interaction and linkage in controlling synrift stratigraphic sequences: Late Jurassic, Statfjord East area, northern North Sea American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 84 2000 45-64
10. Deegan C.E. Scull B.J. A standard lithostratigraphic nomenclature for the central and northern North Sea Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences 1977 77/25
11. Færseth R.B. Interaction of Permo-Triassic and Jurassic extensional fault-blocks during the development of the northern North Sea Journal of the Geological Society of London 153 1996 931-944
12. Fjellganger E. Olsen T.R. Rubino J.L. Sequence stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Middle Jurassic Brent and Vestland deltaic systems, northern North Sea Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 76 1996 75-106
13. Flint S.S. Knight S. Tilbrook A. Application of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy to the Northwest Hutton Field, northern North Sea: Implications for management of a mature Brent Group field Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 82 1998 1416-1436
14. Goldring R. Pollard J.E. Taylor A.M. Anconichnus horizontalis: A pervasive ichnofabric-forming trace fossil in post-Palaeozoic offshore siliciclastic facies Palaios 6 1991 250-263
15. Graue E. Helland-Hansen W. Johnsen J. Lømo L. Nøttvedt A. Rønning K. Ryseth A. Steel R.J. Advance and retreat of the Brent Delta System, Norwegian North Sea Brooks J. Glennie K. Petroleum geology of northwest Europe 1987 915-937 Graham and Trotman London
16. Hamilton P.J. Fallick A.E. MacIntyre R.M. Isotopic tracing of the provenance and diagenesis of Lower Brent Group sands, North Sea Brooks J. Glennie K. Petroleum geology of northwest Europe 1987 939-949 Graham and Trotman London
17. Hampson G.J. Discontinuity surfaces, clinoforms, and facies architecture in a wave-dominated, shoreface-shelf parasequence Journal of Sedimentary Research 70 2000 325-340
18. Hampson G.J. Elliott T. Davies S.J. Flint S.S. The application of sequence stratigraphy to Upper Carboniferous fluvio-deltaic strata of the onshore UK and Ireland: Implications for the southern North Sea Journal of the Geological Society of London 154 1997 719-733
19. Helland-Hansen W. Badley M.E. Lømo L. Steel R.J. Advance and retreat of the Brent Delta: Recent contributions to the depositional model Morton A.C. Haszeldine R.S. Giles M.R. Brown S. Geology of the Brent Group Geological Society of London, Special Publication 61 1992 109-127
20. Howell J.A. Flint S.S. Hunt C. Sedimentological aspects of the Humber Group (Upper Jurassic) of the southern Central Graben, UK North Sea Sedimentology 43 1996 89-114
21. Jennette D.C. Riley C.O. Influence of relative sea-level on facies and reservoir geometry of the Middle Jurassic lower Brent Group, UK North Viking Graben Howell J.A. Aitken J.F. High resolution sequence stratigraphy: Innovations and applications Geological Society of London, Special Publication 104 1996 87-113
22. Johnson R.J. Dingwall R.G. The Caledonides: Their influence on the stratigraphy of the North-West European Continental Shelf Illing V. Hobson G.D. Petroleum geology of the continental shelf of north-west Europe 1981 85-98 Institute of Petroleum London
23. Johnson H.D. Stewart D.J. The role of clastic sedimentology in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the North Sea Brenchley P.J. Williams B.P.J. Sedimentology: Recent developments and applied aspects Geological Society of London, Special Publication 18 1985 249-310
24. Lee M.J. Hwang Y.J. Tectonic evolution and structural styles of the East Shetland Basin Parker J.R. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the fourth conference 1993 1137-1149
25. Livera S.E. Facies associations and sand-body geometries in the Ness Formation of the Brent Group, Brent Field Whateley M.K.G. Pickering K.T. Deltas: Sites and traps for fossil fuels Geological Society of London, Special Publication 41 1989 269-286
26. Livera S.E. Caline B. The sedimentology of the Brent Group in the Cormorant Block IV oilfield Journal of Petroleum Geology 13 1990 367-396
27. MacEachern J.A. Raychaudhuri I. Pemberton S.G. Stratigraphic applications of the Glossifungites ichnofacies: Delineating discontinuities in the rock record Pemberton S.G. Applications of ichnology to petroleum exploration Society of Economic Palaeontologists and Mineralogists, Core Workshop 17 1992 169-198
28. McCarthy P.J. Faccini U.F. Plint A.G. Evolution of an ancient coastal plain: Palaeosols, interfluves and alluvial architecture in a sequence stratigraphic framework, Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation, NE British Columbia, Canada Sedimentology 46 1999 861-891
29. McLeod A.E. Dawers N.H. Underhill J.R. The propogation and linkage of normal faults: Insights from the Strathspey-Brent-Statfjord fault array, northern North Sea Basin Research 12 2000 263-284
30. Mearns E.W. Samarium-neodymium isotopic constraints on the provenance of the Brent Group Morton A.C. Haszeldine R.S. Giles M.R. Brown S. Geology of the Brent Group Geological Society of London, Special Publication 61 1992 213-225
31. Mitchener B.C. Lawrence D.A. Partington M.A. Bowman M.B.J. Gluyas J. Brent Group: Sequence stratigraphy and regional implications Morton A.C. Haszeldine R.S. Giles M.R. Brown S. Geology of the Brent Group Geological Society of London, Special Publication 61 1992 45-80
32. Morris J.E. Hampson G.J. Maxwell G. Controls on facies architecture in the Brent Group, Strathspey Field, UK North Sea: Implications for reservoir characterization Petroleum Geoscience 2003 in press
33. Morton A.C. Provenance of Brent Group sandstones: Heavy mineral constraints Morton A.C. Haszeldine R.S. Giles M.R. Brown S. Geology of the Brent Group Geological Society of London, Special Publication 61 1992 227-244
34. Olsen T.R. Steel R. The significance of the Etive Formation in the development of the Brent system: A review of the likelihood of forced regression during progradation Hunt D. Gawthorpe R.L. Sedimentary responses to forced regression Geological Society of London, Special Publication 172 2000 91-112
35. Plint A.G. Sharp-based shoreface sequences and 'offshore bars' in the Cardium formation of Alberta: Their relationship to relative changes in sea level Wilgus C.K. Hastings B.S. Kendall C.G.S.C. Posamentier H.W. Ross C.A. Van Wagoner J.C. Sea-level changes-An integrated approach Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication 42 1988 357-370
36. Rattey R.P. Heyward A.B. Sequence stratigraphy of a failed rift system: The Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous basin evolution of the central and northern North Sea Parker J.R. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference 1993 215-249
37. Retallack G.J. Soils of the past 1990 Unwin Hyman London p. 520
38. Reynolds A.D. Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Thistle Field, northern North Sea Steel R.J. Felt V.L. Johannessen J.P. Mathieu C. Sequence stratigraphy on the Northwest European margin Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPF), Special Publication 5 1995 257-271
39. Richards P.C. Brown S. Shoreface storm deposits in the Rannoch Formation (Middle Jurassic), North West Hutton oilfield Scottish Journal of Geology 22 1986 367-375
40. Roberts A.M. Kusznir N.J. Walker I.M. Dorn-Lopez D. Quantitative analysis of Triassic extension in the northern Viking Graben Journal of the Geological Society of London 152 1995 15-26
41. Rønning K. Steel R.J. Depositional sequences within a 'transgressive' Reservoir sandstone unit: The Middle Jurassic Tarbert Formation, Hild Area, northern North Sea Kleppe J. Berg E.W. Buller A.T. Hjelmeland O. Torstaeter O. North Sea oil and gas reservoirs 1987 169-176 Graham and Trotman London
42. Sawyer M.J. Keegan J.B. Use of palynofacies characterization in sand-dominated sequences, Brent Group, Ninian Field, UK North Sea Petroleum Geoscience 2 1996 289-297
43. Scott E.S. The palaeoenvironments and dynamics of the Rannoch-Etive nearshore and coastal succession, Brent Group, northern North Sea Morton A.C. Haszeldine R.S. Giles M.R. Brown S. Geology of the Brent Group Geological Society of London, Special Publication 61 1992 129-147
44. Simon Petroleum Technology Ltd (1994). The Brent Delta-An integrated sedimentological and palynological study of the Brent Group between latitudes 59°N and 62°N, UK and Norwegian sectors, North Sea. Unpublished report for Shell UK Expro.
45. Taylor A.M. Gawthorpe R.L. Application of sequence stratigraphy and trace fossil analysis to reservoir description: Examples from the Jurassic of the North Sea Parker J.R. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference 1993 317-336 Geological Society of London
46. Taylor A.M. Goldring R. Description and analysis of bioturbation and ichnofabric Journal of the Geological Society of London 150 1993 141-148
47. Taylor K.G. Simo T. Yokum D. Leckie D.A. Stratigraphic Significance of ooidal ironstones from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: The Castlegate Sandstone, Utah and the Peace River Formation, Alberta Journal of Sedimentary Research 72 2002 316-327
48. Underhill J.R. Partington M.A. Jurassic thermal doming and deflation in the North Sea: Implications of the sequence stratigraphic evidence Parker J.R. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference 1993 337-345 Geological Society of London
49. Underhill J.R. Sawyer M.J. Hodgson P. Shallcross M.D. Gawthorpe R.L. Implications of fault scarp degradation for Brent Group prospectivity, Ninian Field, northern North Sea Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 81 1997 999-1022
50. Young T.P. Phanerozoic ironstones: An introduction and review Young T.P. Taylor W.E.G. Phanerozoic ironstones Geological Society of London, Special Publication 46 1989 ix-xxv
51. Zaitlin B.A. Dalrymple R.W. Boyd R. The stratigraphic organization of incised-valley systems associated with relative sea-level change Dalrymple R.W. Boyd R. Zaitlin B.A. Incised-valley systems: Origin and sedimentary sequences Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication 51 1994 45-60