The Technical and Editorial Committee
Preface
B. Levell & M. Bowman The Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 years of learning – a platform for present value and future success. An overview
Plays and Fairways
F. S. P. van Buchem, F. W. H. Smit, G. J. A. Buijs, B. Trudgill & P.-H. LarsenTectonostratigraphic framework and depositional history of the Cretaceous–Danian succession of the Danish Central Graben (North Sea) – new light on a mature area
P. F. Green, I. R. Duddy & P. Japsen Multiple episodes of regional exhumation and inversion identified in the UK Southern North Sea based on integration of palaeothermal and palaeoburial indicators
J. Arfai & R. Lutz 3D basin and petroleum system modelling of the NW German North Sea (Entenschnabel)
S. Patruno, W. Reid, C. A.-L. Jackson & C. Davies New insights into the unexploited reservoir potential of the Mid North Sea High (UKCS quadrants 35–38 and 41–43): a newly described intra-Zechstein sulphate–carbonate platform complex
M. Akpokodje, A. Melvin, J. Churchill, S. Burns, J. Morris, S. Kape, M. Wakefield & R. AmeeraliRegional study of controls on reservoir quality in the Triassic Skagerrak Formation of the Central North Sea
E. Dmitrieva, C. A.-L. Jackson, M. Huuse & I. A. Kane Regional distribution and controls on the development of post-rift turbidite systems: insights from the Paleocene of the eastern North Viking Graben, offshore Norway
P. M. Shannon Old challenges, new developments and new plays in Irish offshore exploration
I. C. Scotchman, A. G. Doré & A. M. Spencer Petroleum systems and results of exploration on the Atlantic margins of the UK, Faroes & Ireland: what have we learnt?
L. Watremez, M. Prada, T. Minshull, B. O’Reilly, C. Chen, T. Reston, P. Shannon, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Klaeschen, R. Edwards & S. Lebedev Deep structure of the Porcupine Basin from wide-angle seismic data
N. Schofield, D. Jolley, S. Holford, S. Archer, D. Watson, A. Hartley, J. Howell, D. Muirhead, J. Underhill & P. Green Challenges of future exploration within the UK Rockall Basin
M. Larsen, B. Bell, P. Guarnieri, H. Vosgerau & R. Weibel Exploration challenges along the North Atlantic volcanic margins: the intra-volcanic sandstone play in subsurface and outcrop
A. Finlayson, A. Melvin, A. Guise & J. Churchill Controls on the reservoir quality of Late Cretaceous Springar Formation deep-water fan systems in the Vøring Basin
Play Assessment
G. P. Citron, P. Jeffrey Brown, J. MacKay, P. Carragher & D. Cook The challenge of unbiased application of risk analysis towards future profitable exploration
C. J. H. Mathieu Exploration well failures from the UK North Sea
E. J. Stirling, E. M. G. Fugelli & M. Thompson The edges of the wedges: a systematic approach to trap definition and risking for stratigraphic, combination and sub-unconformity traps
Recent Successes and Learnings from Failures
G. Goffey, M. Attree, P. Curtis, F. Goodfellow, J. Lynch, D. Mackertich, T. Orife & W. TyrrellNew exploration discoveries in a mature basin: offshore Denmark
R. Catto, S. Taggart & G. Poole Petroleum geology of the Cygnus gas field, UK North Sea: from discovery to development
P. Rose, G. Byerley & O. Vaughan The Bacchus development: dealing with geological uncertainty in a small high-pressure–high-temperature development
J.-O. Koch, A. Frischbutter, K. Øygard & J. Cater The 35/9-7 Skarfjell discovery: a genuine stratigraphic trap, NE North Sea, Norway
G. Ward & D. Baker Rhyl Field: developing a new structural model by integrating basic geological principles with advanced seismic imaging in the Irish Sea
S. Poppitt, L. J. Duncan, B. Preu, F. Fazzari & J. Archer The influence of volcanic rocks on the characterization of Rosebank Field – new insights from ocean-bottom seismic data and geological analogues integrated through interpretation and modelling
A. Belaidi, D. A. Bonter, C. Slightam & R. C. Trice The Lancaster Field: progress in opening the UK’s fractured basement play
Infrastructure-led Exploration and Development
S. Green, S. O’Connor, R. Swarbrick & K. Waters A hydrodynamic model and associated spill-point map for the Huntington Field, UK Central North Sea
C. Edwards, S. McQuaid, S. Easton, D. Scott, A. Couch, R. Evans & S. Hart Lateral accretion in a straight slope channel system: an example from the Forties Sandstone of the Huntington Field, UK Central North Sea
D. W. Jones, B. J. Taylor, C. E. Gill, M. Bevaart, P. F. van Bergen, J. S. Watson, S. de Gennaro & M. Hodzic The Shearwater Field – understanding the overburden above a geologically complex and pressure-depleted high-pressure and high-temperature field
S. S. Skarpeid, J. M. Churchill, J. P. J. Hilton, C. N. Izatt & M. T. Poole The Knarr Field: a new development at the northern edge of the North Sea
P. Noel & N. Taylor Beyond Laggan–Tormore: maximizing economic recovery from gas infrastructure West of Shetland
Late-life Fields, Redevelopment and the Next Life
J. Brain, T. Lassaigne, M. Darnet & P. Van Loevezijn Unlocking 4D seismic technology to maximize recovery from the pre-salt Rotliegend gas fields of the Southern North Sea
L. Singer, G. Byerley & P. Rose Re-saturation targets identified from 4D seismic softening responses in the Forties Field
P. Rose, G. Byerley, O. Vaughan, J. Cater, B. R. Rea, M. Spagnolo & S. Archer Aviat: a Lower Pleistocene shallow gas hazard developed as a fuel gas supply for the Forties Field
J. Pyle, G. Farquharson, J. Gibson, D. Helgeson & J. Towart The Beryl Field area: increasing production in a mature asset
K. A. Wright, R. Nice, M. Tazzi, K. Purnell & V. Penasse Spectral decomposition: an aid in characterizing field architectures of the Laggan and Tormore fields, Faroe–Shetland Basin
M. Bentley & P. Ringrose Future directions in reservoir modelling: new tools and ‘fit-for-purpose’ workflows
J. D. Marshall, O. D. Tucker, C. E. Lovelock, S. J. Darker, C. E. Annia & J. B. Hognestad Goldeneye: Tomorrow Never Dies (or a field Only Lives Twice)
J. Gluyas, S. Mathias & S. Goudarzi North Sea – next life: extending the commercial life of producing North Sea fields
Onshore Exploration and Development
A. L. Harvey, I. J. Andrews & A. A. Monaghan Shale prospectivity onshore Britain
D. A. Riley, T. J. Pearce, E. Mathia, K. Ratcliffe & J. Martin The application of elemental geochemistry to UK onshore unconventional plays
J. Steventon & M. Bowman An assessment of the Upper Succession and the related secondary reservoirs in the Welton Field, onshore UK
F. Hughes, D. Harrison, M. Haarhoff, P. Howlett, A. Pearson, D. Ware, C. Taylor, G. Emms & A. Mortimer The unconventional Carboniferous reservoirs of the Greater Kirby Misperton gas field and their potential: North Yorkshire’s sleeping giant
Index