Ireland's Porcupine Basin: Drilling Time?

Neil Parkinson, Rowland Thomas, Hugh Mackay

GEO ExPro Magazine

... proximal 100 km. The Porcupine Basin is comparable in size to the North Viking Graben of the North Sea, and there is plenty of room to put the Brent...

Notes for a Wellsite Geologist in Saskatchewan

Robert Schwab

CSPG Bulletin

... of the stratigraphy is encountered in Saskatchewan, particularly in the south-western portion. The lithological descriptions mentioned herein refer...

Chapter Twelve: 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, Mark A. Jones

AAPG Special Volumes

... Architecture in the Upper Jurassic Thelma Field Area, South Viking Graben, North Sea Bryan T. Cronin, Mark A. Jones 2018 339 386 AAPG Memoir 115/Rift...

The Habitat of Oil and Gas on Continental Margins

M. K. Horn

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... Netherlands Trough (east). The legs of the Forties System are the Central Graben (south), the Forties Trough/ Moray Firth Basin (west), and the Viking...

Oil vs. Gas: What are the Limits to Prospect-Level Hydrocarbon Phase Prediction?; #42513 (2020)

Andrew Murray, Zhiyong He

Search and Discovery.com

... 0 3 -3 0 5 3 -4 5 0 60 4 -5 5 0 5 -6 0 5 20 30 40 50 South Viking Graben 10 Gas Wetness (%C2‐C5/(C1‐C5) 4 -4 0 5 0 Central Viking Graben...

Tectonic evolution of the Triassic rift event: New insights from the Utsira High Area, Northern North Sea

Riccardo Sordi, Adrian J. Hartley, John Howell, Douglas Watson, Shaan Heydenrych, Spyridon Saltapidas

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the entire section of the Rift system. The Stord Basin and Asta Graben at the East, and the South Viking Graben at the West, with the Utsira High...

Tectonic Control on Hydrocarbon Accumulation in the Intra-Continental Albertine Graben of the East African Rift System, by Dozith Abeinomugisha and Robert Kasande, #10183 (2009).

Search and Discovery.com

PermianHolocene tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Mandal High, Central Graben, North Sea

Anders Rossland, Alejandro Escalona, Rinn Rolfsen

AAPG Bulletin

... Sverdrup; Carstens, 2007; 2011), located on the eastern flank of the southern Viking Graben, 150 km (93 mi) west of Stavanger, open a new exploration...

Abstract: New Exploration Traps in the Espino Graben. Eastern Venezuela Basin, by Yoasmali A. Barrios, Noelia Baptista, and Grover Gonzales; #90124 (2011)

Search and Discovery.com

Modern Technology Reveals New Opportunities in the North Sea

Cyrille Reiser, Euan Anderson, Frances Matthew

GEO ExPro Magazine

... at the junction of the South Viking Graben and the Central Graben of the North Sea, and straddles both British and Norwegian waters. Existing...

The East Shetland Platform

Stefano Patruno, Christine Roche, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Creataceous Top Permian Top Devonian Top crystalline basement Mesozoic Upper Palaeocene amplitude anomaly Kimmeridge Clay source kitchen (Viking Graben...

The First UK Giant Oil Field

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... The early explorers had been surprised and excited when the first seismic lines across the Viking Graben, in the centre of the area, had shown significant...

An Oil and Gas Play Turns into a Prime Helium Prospect

Bruce A. Black

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Grande rift and the Zia prospect on the Viking graben and the Gullfaks Field at the same scale. While there are many similarities, like the presents...

Paleogeographic Setting and Depositional Architecture of a Sand-Dominated Shelf Depositional System, Miocene Utsira Formation, North Sea Basin

W.E. Galloway

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... south Viking shelf shoal. Southward-building sandy banner banks that formed along the recurved arc of the platform margin nourished the shoal system...

First Commercial North Sea Oil Discovery

Halfdan Carstens

GEO ExPro Magazine

... was spudded on August 21 with Ocean Viking and Max was there from the very first turn of the drill. He was prepared to describe cuttings through a 3,000 m thick...

Triassic Graben-Rifts of West Siberia

V. S. Surkov, O. G. Zhero

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... is greater in the south of the platform; however, they are smaller. The graben-rifts of West Siberia formed as a result of rupture and extension...

Paleoenvironments and Regional Stratigraphic Framework of the Middle–Upper Albian Lepine Formation in the Liard Basin, Northern Canada

D.M.S. Jowett, C.J. Schroder-Adams

CSPG Bulletin

..., Robb, G.A. and Longstaffe, F.J. 1986. The Viking Formation in the Caroline, Garrington and Harmattan East fields, western south-central Alberta...

An allostratigraphic correlation of Lower Colorado Group (Albian) and equivalent strata in Alberta and British Columbia, and Cenomanian rocks of the Upper Colorado Group in southern Alberta

Xavier Roca, Jessica R. Rylaarsdam, Heng Zhang, Bogdan L. Varban, Chad F. Sisulak, Kim Bastedo, A. Guy Plint

CSPG Bulletin

... it is assigned to the lithostratigraphic Viking Formation, and in the far south, where it is assigned to part of the lithostratigraphic Bow Island Formation...

Recognition and Interpretation of Estuarine Mudstones (Central Basin Mustones) in the Tripartite Valley-Fill Deposits of the Viking Formation, Central Alberta

Simon A.J. Pattison

Special Publications of SEPM

... geology of Crystal Viking Field, Lower Cretaceous estuarine tidal channel - bay complex, south central Alberta. American Association of Petroleum...

Integrating legacy data with new towed-streamer acquisition tuned for imaging objectives: A Campos Basin case study

Jon Burren, Derek Unger

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... multisensor quantitative interpretation: A South Viking Graben case study, Norway: First Break, 39, 79–84, doi: https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.fb2021071...

Application of Pressure Measurements to Development Geology: Chapter 9

Parke A. Dickey

AAPG Special Volumes

... sealing faults and a possible central north-south graben was assumed to be sealing. Well 9A was diverted to the east to penetrate the east side...

Distribution of Clay Minerals In the Northern North Sea Basin During the Paleogene and Neogene: A Result of Source-Area Geology and Sorting Processes

Ole Bjørslev Nielsen, Erik Skovbjerg Rasmussen, Brit Inger Thyberg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in marginal areas of the basin, to more basin-central locations, especially in the Paleocene Viking Graben. Diagenetic modification of the originally...

An Allostratigraphic and Paleogeographic Framework for the Joli Fou and Pelican Formations and Contiguous Strata (Late Albian, Early Cretaceous) in Central Alberta

Kathleen M. Vannelli, A. Guy Plint, Robin A. Buckley, Jessica R. Krawetz, Celeste M. Cunningham

CSPG Bulletin

... of east-central Alberta. Although the Pelican Formation is known to be broadly equivalent to the Viking Formation to the south, its internal...

Summary Topography and Geology of Eastern Alberta and Western Saskatchewan During Early Cretaceous Time

E.W. Beltz

CSPG Bulletin

... of the Mannville. Other good horizons within the Mannville, or higher horizons such as the Fish Scale or even Viking would probably serve as well or better...

The relation between stratigraphic elements, pressure regime, and hydrocarbons in the Alberta deep basin (with emphasis on select Mesozoic units)

Peter E. Putnam, Grant S. Ward

AAPG Bulletin

... of Crystal Viking field: Lower Cretaceous estuarine tidal channel-bay complex, south-central Alberta: AAPG Bulletin, v. 72, p. 1270-1294. Reinson, G. E., W. J...