Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference
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The edges of the wedges: a systematic approach to trap definition and risking for stratigraphic, combination and sub-unconformity traps
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Published:January 01, 2018
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Eleanor J. Stirling, Edith M. G. Fugelli, Mark Thompson, 2018. "The edges of the wedges: a systematic approach to trap definition and risking for stratigraphic, combination and sub-unconformity traps", Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference, M. Bowman, B. Levell
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Abstract
In recent years, stratigraphic and combination traps such as Buzzard (UK North Sea) and Jubilee (Ghana) have attracted much industry attention. Such trap types are generally considered higher risk than structural traps, and understanding them represents a challenge for explorers, as numerous less successful (often amplitude-driven) attempts have demonstrated. Owing to their perceived high risk, stratigraphic traps are often drilled late in a basin's exploration history; however, we assert that consideration of stratigraphic traps should be part of any frontier exploration programme because they occur in all basin types and depositional settings, and allow new plays to be opened...
- Africa
- Alaska
- Atlantic Ocean
- basins
- bathymetry
- Brazil
- Campos Basin
- clastic rocks
- Cretaceous
- Europe
- Ghana
- Lower Cretaceous
- Mesozoic
- natural gas
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- Norway
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- reservoir properties
- review
- rift zones
- sandstone
- Scandinavia
- sedimentary basins
- sedimentary rocks
- South America
- stratigraphic traps
- structural traps
- traps
- unconformities
- United States
- West Africa
- Western Europe
- Colville Basin
- Kuparuk Field
- Kuparuk River Formation
- Buzzard Field
- Jubilee Field
- Upper Beaufortian Field
- Edvard Grieg Field