United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume
CONTAINS OPEN ACCESS

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 Rubie Field, Block 15/28b, UK North Sea
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Published:October 30, 2020
Abstract
The Rubie Field is located within the Outer Moray Firth in Block 15/28b, towards the eastern end of the Renee Ridge and 6 km east of the Renee Field. The block was awarded to a BNOC-operated group following the 7th Licensing Round in 1980. The 15/28b-4 discovery was drilled by Britoil in 1985, encountering hydrocarbons at two stratigraphic levels within the Paleocene Andrew Sandstone unit and Eocene Cromarty Sandstone Member reservoirs. No further appraisal was undertaken prior to a late 1997 Annex B submission for a joint Renee and Rubie Field development by new operator, Phillips Petroleum. The Rubie...
- Atlantic Ocean
- Cenozoic
- Eocene
- Europe
- Great Britain
- history
- Moray Firth
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- oil and gas fields
- Paleocene
- Paleogene
- permeability
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- porosity
- production
- reserves
- reservoir properties
- Scotland
- Tertiary
- United Kingdom
- Western Europe
- Montrose Group
- Moray Group
- Andrew Sandstone
- Cromarty Sandstone Member
- Rubie Field
- List Formation