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Abstract Core-based studies have had material impacts on the understanding of a number of late-life, mature North Sea Brent Group hydrocarbon reservoirs. These studies have included sedimentological, diagenetic and reservoir quality focused evaluations of core. The primary objective of the studies has been to improve conceptual and qualitative models that can be utilized in reservoir modelling and also for infill drilling and well workover evaluations. Most of these studies have been undertaken on old core samples collected in the 1980s and 1990s. Two case studies are described here that provide examples of the utility of core in mature fields. (1) Heather Field calcite: to quantitatively assess the distribution of calcite cements and their impact on hydrocarbon volumes and reservoir quality distribution in Brent reservoirs. (2) Thistle Field Etive Formation barriers and baffles: to characterize and describe the origin and distribution of low-permeability intervals within the Etive Formation reservoir. These two studies used a wide variety of core-based techniques including core logging and description, optical microscopy and petrographical studies, isotope analyses, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) (FEI Company analysis tool and software, QEMSCAN)-based mineralogy, portable-X-ray fluorescence (XRF), NDTr and Thermo Scientific Inc. NITON TM operational software (NDT) geochemical analysis, as well as image analysis of grain size and texture. These data were then integrated with other subsurface datasets, such as well log, seismic data and well performance data, in order to address the specific reservoir challenge. These new and focused reappraisals of core demonstrate the dual value of core-based studies, which can: improve the understanding of producing hydrocarbon reservoirs, leading to improved productivity and recovery. Core is a full asset life-cycle resource and provides critical insight at all stages of field maturity as production behaviour changes and alternative development strategies are considered; further our general knowledge and understanding of clastic sedimentology and diagenesis using rich and diverse core-based datasets backed up by substantial well log and seismic datasets.
Abstract The Penguins Cluster of fields are owned jointly (50:50) by Shell UK Ltd (Shell) and Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd (Esso), with Shell as the operator. The cluster was discovered in 1974 and is composed of a combination of oil and gas condensate accumulations located 50–65 km north of the Brent Field, at the northern end of the North Viking Graben. Two main producing reservoirs are present: the Penguins West Field (Penguin A) consists of an Upper Jurassic Magnus Sandstone Member reservoir, while the Penguins East Field (Penguin C, D and E) consists of a Middle Jurassic Brent Group reservoir, underlain by currently undeveloped Statfjord and Triassic (Cormorant) reservoirs. The Magnus reservoir is composed of turbidite sands with an average porosity of 15% and permeabilities of 0.10–300 mD. The Brent reservoirs are composed of deltaic shoreface deposits with an average porosity of 14% and permeabilities of 0.01–1000 mD. The fields were brought on stream in 2003 as a subsea development via what at the time was the world's longest comingled tieback to the Brent Charlie facility. A total of nine producing wells have been drilled from four subsea manifolds, producing c. 78 MMboe to date through depletion drive.