The Elswick Field, Bowland Basin, UK onshore
The Elswick Field, Bowland Basin, UK onshore (in United Kingdom oil and gas fields; 50th anniversary commemorative volume, G. Goffey (editor) and Jon G. Gluyas (editor))
Memoirs of the Geological Society of London (2020) 52: 62-73
- alluvial fans
- clastic rocks
- conglomerate
- development
- diagenesis
- England
- Europe
- fluvial environment
- Great Britain
- history
- Lancashire England
- lithofacies
- Mercia Mudstone
- Mesozoic
- oil and gas fields
- paleoenvironment
- Paleozoic
- Permian
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- porosity
- production
- reserves
- reservoir properties
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- Triassic
- United Kingdom
- Upper Triassic
- Western Europe
- Cheshire Basin
- Bowland Basin
- Elswick Field
- Saint Bees Sandstone Formation
- Ormskirk Sandstone Formation
- Collyhurst Sandstone Formation
- Elswick Graben
- Woodsfold Fault
- Marchester Marl Formation
- Fylde Peninsula
- Thistleton Fault
he Elswick Field is located within Exploration Licence EXL 269a (Cuadrilla Resources Ltd is the operator) on the Fylde Peninsula, West Lancashire, UK. It is the first producing onshore gas field to be developed by hydraulic fracture stimulation in the region. Production from the single well field started in 1996 and has produced over 0.5 bcf for onsite electricity generation. Geologically, the field lies within a Tertiary domal structure within the Elswick Graben, Bowland Basin. The reservoir is the Permian Collyhurst Sandstone Formation: tight, low-porosity fluvial desert sandstones, alluvial fan conglomerates and argillaceous sandstones. The reservoir quality is primarily controlled by depositional processes further reduced by diagenesis. Depth to the reservoir is 3331 ft TVDSS with the gas-water contact at 3400 ft TVDSS and with a net pay thickness of 38 ft.
