United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Volume
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 Huntington Field, Block 22/14a, UK North Sea
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Published:October 30, 2020
Abstract
The Huntington Oil Field is located in Block 22/14b in the Central Graben of the UK Continental Shelf. The reservoir is the Forties Sandstone Member of the Sele Formation, and oil production is from four production wells supported by two water-injection wells, tied back to the Sevan Voyageur FPSO (floating production storage and offloading unit). Initial estimates of oil-in-place were c. 70 MMbbl and the recovery factor at the end of 2017 after 4.5 years of production was 28%, which reflects the weak aquifer and poor pressure support from water injection. The Huntington reservoir is part of a lobate sheet sand system, where low-concentration turbidite sands and linked debrites are preserved between thin mudstones of regional extent. Within the reservoir, three of the thicker mudstone beds can be correlated biostratigraphically on a regional basis. This stacked lobate part of the system sits above a large-scale deep-water Forties channel that is backfilled by a system of vertically aggrading channel storeys. Despite the relatively high net/gross of the reservoir, the thin but laterally extensive mudstones in the upper (lobate) part of the system are effective aquitards and barriers to pressure support from water.
- Atlantic Ocean
- Cenozoic
- Central Graben
- clastic rocks
- continental shelf
- enhanced recovery
- Europe
- fluid injection
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- mudstone
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- oil and gas fields
- oil wells
- Paleocene
- Paleogene
- production
- reservoir properties
- reservoir rocks
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- structural traps
- surveys
- Tertiary
- Thanetian
- traps
- United Kingdom
- upper Paleocene
- Western Europe
- Sele Formation
- Moray Group
- Forties Sandstone Member
- Huntington Field