Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers – Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference

‘The Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference is the seventh in a series that has become a tradition known as the ‘Barbican’ conferences. They started life over 35 years ago, in 1974, with a focus solely on North-West Europe, and have a reputation, both from the conferences and the accompanying Proceedings volumes, of being at the forefront of petroleum geoscience; the standard reference for successive generations of petroleum geoscientists.
North-West Europe has matured as a petroleum province and, at the same time, the conference series has matured to be a truly global event.
These Proceedings embrace many of the world’s petroleum provinces in a two-volume set. There are sections on Europe, which still provides the heart of the Proceedings; Russia, the former Soviet Union and Circum-Artic; North Africa and the Middle East; Passive Margins; and Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources.
In addition, the three Geocontroversies debates, highly acclaimed at the conference, are included, as is a summary of the Core Workshop. A DVD complements the books and, in addition to providing electronic versions of all the papers also includes selected posters and video clips from the Virtual Field Trip session; the latter being a major success at the conference. The Proceedings volumes of this seventh conference are therefore a ‘must’ for every petroleum geoscientist’s bookshelf.
The Scott Field: revitalization of a mature field Available to Purchase
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Published:January 01, 2010
Abstract
The Scott Field, located in the UK Central North Sea, is in a mature stage of development. The Scott platform has been on production since 1993, when the Scott Field came on stream, followed in 1993 by the subsea tie-back of the Telford Field development, located to the south of Scott. By 2005 the Scott Field had produced 400×106 boe cumulative production. However, the field was producing at water cuts approaching 90% and the previously completed 2002–2004 infill drilling campaign had not met expectations. A change in strategy was undertaken in the subsequent 2005–2007 Scott drilling campaign, which yielded positive results, adding reserves and significantly increasing platform export rates. The focus moved from peripheral targets towards the edge of the field to lower risk targets closer to existing well control. Success was also attributed to focusing on the seismic interpretation of block bounding faults in poorly imaged areas of the field, allowing identification of small fault-bound targets. The recent drilling has demonstrated that significant value can be found in small and often complex accumulations within an extensively drilled mature field.
- Atlantic Ocean
- case studies
- clastic rocks
- drilling
- Europe
- geophysical methods
- Great Britain
- interpretation
- Jurassic
- maturity
- Mesozoic
- Moray Firth
- natural gas
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- petroleum
- production
- sandstone
- Scotland
- sedimentary rocks
- seismic methods
- United Kingdom
- Upper Jurassic
- Western Europe
- Piper Sandstone
- Scott Field
- Outer Moray Firth
- Telford Field