United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume
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Geological Society Memoir 52 records the extraordinary journey of more than 50 years that has led to the development of some 458 oil and gas fields on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). It contains papers on almost 150 onshore and offshore fields in all of the UK's main petroliferous basins. These papers range from look-backs on some of the first-developed gas fields in the Southern North Sea, to papers on fields that have only just been brought into production or may still remain undeveloped, and includes two candidate CO2 sequestration projects.
These papers are intended to provide a consistent summary of the exploration, appraisal, development and production history of each field, leading to the current subsurface understanding which is described in greater detail. As such, the Memoir will be an enduring reference source for those exploring for, developing, producing hydrocarbons and sequestering CO2 on the UKCS in the coming decades. It encapsulates the petroleum industry's deep subsurface knowledge accrued over more than 50 years of exploration and production.
The Pilot, Elke, Blakeney, Narwhal, Harbour and Feugh fields, Blocks 21/27, 21/28, 28/2 and 28/3, UK North Sea
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Published:October 30, 2020
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Stephen A. Brown, Peter H. Wood, Maurice L. F. Bamford, Jon G. Gluyas, 2020. "The Pilot, Elke, Blakeney, Narwhal, Harbour and Feugh fields, Blocks 21/27, 21/28, 28/2 and 28/3, UK North Sea", United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume, G. Goffey, J. G. Gluyas
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Abstract
The, as yet undeveloped, heavy-oil fields of the Western Platform contain about 500 MMbbl of oil in place. The fields are reservoired in highly porous and permeable, Middle Eocene, deep-water sandstones of the Tay Sandstone Member, deposited as turbidite flows from a shelf immediately to the west.
Oil gravity varies from 19° API in the Harbour Field to 12° API in the northern end of the Pilot Field. The reservoirs are shallow: Pilot and Harbour are at about 2700 ft TVDSS, with the Narwhal, Elke, Blakeney and Feugh discoveries being deeper at about 3300 ft TVDSS. Overall, oil viscosity...
- Atlantic Ocean
- biozones
- Cenozoic
- Central Graben
- clastic rocks
- enhanced recovery
- Europe
- Lower Permian
- middle Miocene
- Miocene
- models
- Neogene
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- oil and gas fields
- paleoenvironment
- Paleozoic
- permeability
- Permian
- porosity
- reservoir properties
- reservoir rocks
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- Tertiary
- United Kingdom
- Western Europe
- Western Platform
- Rotliegend Group
- Tay Sandstone Member
- Narwhal Field
- Elke Field
- Feugh Field
- Blakeney Field
- Harbour Field
- Pilot Field