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Title

Rift-related coarse-grained submarine fan reservoirs : the Brae Play, South Viking Graben, North Sea / edited by Colin C. Turner, Bryan T. Cronin.

Publication

• Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. : The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists, issuing body.
• Cronin, Bryan T.,
• Turner, C. C. (Colin C.),

Description

xi, 628 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"The South Viking Graben (SVG) is a mature, prolific, hydrocarbon-producing area of the northern North Sea. Many fields produce from Upper Jurassic, deep-water, mass-flow conglomerate and sandstone reservoirs, termed the Brae Play. Deposition occurred in proximal and basin-floor submarine fan environments, mostly fed down the steep western flank of the graben footwall but with some, largely sandstone, fans being fed from the less steep eastern graben flank. Encasing mudstones form world-class source rocks. A detailed classification scheme for coarse-grained, deep-water deposits, a review of fine-grained turbidites, and a discussion of the conglomeratic megabeds are provided prior to detailed discussions of the character of Brae Play reservoir facies, the fan architectures and distribution of the fan systems, the trapping mechanisms and structural evolution of the basin, and an extensive account of the petroleum systems in the SVG. The area forms an outstanding example of hydrocarbon reservoirs within submarine fan facies in a rift environment. This Memoir provides a comprehensive review and interpretation of the Upper Jurassic reservoirs in the SVG, which will be relevant to those working in the North Sea and analogous rift basins. It will also be of considerable relevance to all those with an interest in deep-water ssedimentology, particularly those involved with deep-water coarse-clastic deposits" -- Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

AAPG memoir ; 115

Uniform Title

AAPG memoir ; 115.

Subject

• Atlantic Ocean > North Sea
• Geochemistry > North Sea > Congresses
• Geochemistry > Norway > Congresses
• Geochemistry
• Northern Europe
• Norway
• Petroleum > Prospecting > Europe, Northern > Congresses
• Petroleum > Prospecting
• Sediments (Geology)
• Sediments (Geology) > Europe, Northern > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introductory chapters. Chapter 1: The Brae Play, South Viking Graben, North Sea: an introduction / Colin C. Turner and Bryan T. Cronin -- Chapter 2: The South Viking Graben: overview of Upper Jurassic rift geometry, biostratigraphy, and extent of Brae Play submarine fan systems / Colin C. Turner, Bryan T. Cronin, Leslie A. Riley, Stefano Patruno, William T. L. R. Reid, Silvan Hoth, Dirk Knaust, Simon Allerton, Mark A. Jones, and Christopher A.-L. Jackson -- Deep-water facies. Chapter 3: Lithofabric classification and distribution of coarse-grained deep-water clastic depositional systems / Bryan T. Cronin -- Chapter 4: Thin-bedded turbidites: overview and petroleum perspective / Dorrik A. V. Stow and Bayonle A. Omoniyi -- Chapter 5: Deep-water conglomeratic megabeds: analogues for event beds of the Brae formation of the South Viking Graben, North Sea / Guilherme Bozetti, Bryan T. Cronin, Benjamin C. Kneller, and Mark A. Jones -- U.K. area and fields. Chapter 6: The discovery and development of the Brae area fields, U.K. South Viking Graben / Malcolm Pye -- Chapter 7: Mid to late Jurassic Graben margin development and evolution of shallow marine to submarine fan systems in the Brae area of the South Viking Graben, U.K. North Sea / Colin C. Turner and E. Rodger Connell -- Chapter 8: Proximal submarine fan reservoir architecture and development in the Upper Jurassic Brae formation of the Brae fields, South Viking Graben, U.K. North Sea / Colin C. Turner, Rodrigo E. Bastidas, E. Rodger Connell, and Falene E. Petrik -- Chapter 9: Characterization of thin-bedded turbidites in the North Brae field, South Viking Graben, North Sea / Bayonle A. Omoniyi, Dorrik A. V. Stow, and Andy R. Gardiner -- Chapter 10: Reservoir geology of the Upper Jurassic Brae sandstone member, Kingfisher field, South Viking Graben, U.K. North Sea / David W. Jones and Pim van Bergen -- Chapter 11: A depositional model for the T-Block Thelma field, Ukcs Block 16/17 / Mark A. Jones, Bryan T. Cronin, and Simon Allerton -- Chapter 12: Facies classification and facies association of deep-water depositional systems: application to the prediction of slope and fan architecture in the Upper Jurassic Thelma field area, South Viking Graben, North Sea / Bryan T. Cronin and Mark A. Jones -- Norway area and fields. Chapter 13: The Gudrun field: Gravity-flow deposition during rifting and inversion / Silvan Hoth, Dirk Knaust, Alberto Sánchez-López, Silvia Kassold, and Stig Sviland-Østre -- Chapter 14: Temporal throw rate variability on gravity-driven normal faults; Constraints from the Gudrun Fault, South Viking Graben, Offshore Norway /Christopher A.-L. Jackson -- Chapter 15: Tectono-stratigraphic development of the Upper Jurassic in the Johan Sverdrup area (extended abstract) / Anthony S. J. Scott and Signe Ottesen -- Petroleum systems. Chapter 16: Petroleum systems of the South Viking Graben / Chris Cornford -- Structural development. Chapter 17: Structural evolution of the T-Block Brae fields, South Viking Graben / Simon Allerton, Eugenio Giuliani, Amy Kwiatkowski, Mark Jones, Julian Robinson, and Adam Styles -- Chapter 18: Gravity-driven versus inversion origins for Upper Jurassic trapping structures of the Brae fields, South Viking Graben, U.K. North Sea / Colin C. Turner and Robert J. Hooper -- Analog outcrops. Chapter 19: The Alikayasi Canyon-Channel System (Miocene, Southeast Turkey) compared with the South Brae fan system (Upper Jurassic, North Sea); Characterizing sand and gravel-filled channel complexes in coarse-grained deep-water systems without gravel cone geometries / Ramon Lopez Jimenez, Bryan T. Cronin, Hasan Çelik, Colin C. Turner, Rodrigo E. Bastidas, and Benjamin C. Kneller -- Bibliography. Chapter 20: Bibliography of geological publications and Ph.D. theses from the South Viking Graben Area, North Sea; Including literature on selected analogs initially used in the study of Brae formation geology / E. Rodger Connell.

ISBN

• 9780891813958
• 0891813950

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library