An eastward (releasing) bend in the Eocene dextral Barents Shear Margin gave rise to the formation of the Vestbakken Volcanic Province. The area has been affected by complex tectonics and both extensional and contractional ...

The SW Barents Sea is a relatively unexplored area compared to the Northern North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. The area has undergone several events of upliftment and erosion making it very complex, with numerous source rocks ...

A reservoir characterization of the Stø formation has been performed in two wells linked to the Snøhvit field within the Hammerfest Basin in the South-Western Barents Sea. The reservoir quality of the Stø formation has ...

This study presents reservoir characterization of Triassic and Jurassic sandstones using petrophysical analysis, rock physics diagnostics and AVO modeling with data from eight exploration wells in and around the Bjarmeland ...

Prinicples of sequence stratigraphy were applied to 2D seismic data to study the evolution of a N-S prograding system that developed in the southwestern Barents Sea during Eocene. Four units were interpreted in the basin, ...

An investigation of the depositional architecture of the Curtis Formation and an evaluation of how the observed facies distribution affects overall reservoir quality is conducted. This tidally influenced marginal marine ...

The Lofoten margin segment is located offshore northern Norway, in between the volcanic rifted Vøring and Vesterålen margins. Several available datasets have been integrated in order to study in detail the tectono-stratigraphic ...

Reduction of porosity in sandstones with increasing burial is a function of mechanical compaction causing reorganization and crushing of grains with increasing pressure, and chemical compaction, mainly precipitation of ...

This thesis presents a simple binary filter method for feature extraction and fault enhancement of fault attribute data. Fault attributes are commonly used in structural interpretive studies to detect faults. However, they ...

Two-dimensional seismic data and a regional seismic sequence analysis of the Paleocene succession in the southwestern Barents Sea are presented and discussed. The Paleogene Torsk Formation is bounded by a Cretaceous – ...

A key focus of this thesis is if migrated bitumen from Lower to Middle Jurassic and Cretaceous age sandstones in the 6609/11-1, 6610/7-1 and the 6609/5-1 wells in the Helgeland Basin might originate from Devonian source ...

This project aims to increase the understanding of reservoir quality of the Stø and Nordmela Formations in the Skrugard well (7220/8-1) in the SW Barents Sea. The selected interval from 1292.3 m to 1404.25 m in the Skrugard ...

Sedimentary successions of Permo-Triassic to Early Cretaceous age have been studied in core 16/1-13 from the Edvard Grieg Field, located on the Utsira High, in the North Sea. Sedimentary field data combined with petrographical ...

At the Julian 1-2, a period major break in reef growth took place in the Tethys realm. This lithological change from carbonates to siliciclastics is interpreted to be the result of increased runoff. Increased continental ...

The main objective of this study is to attempt to correlate twelve (12) core and (1) one outcrop source rock samples, recovered from the Hammerfest Basin, the Nyslepp/Måsøy Fault Complex, the Finnmark Platform, the Nordkapp ...

Outcrops in the central and southern Mandawa Basin have been examined and studied in detail, with the emphasis on describing facies and facies associations. This has been done to provide information about the depositional ...

The mid-Norwegian continental margin that has been tectonically active from Caledonian Orogeny to early Cenozoic time is divided into a number of structural provinces and the main tectonic phases records the transition ...

This thesis represents the findings concerning core samples from 15 examined exploration wells (with a total of 91 samples) on the eastern flank of the Viking Graben, North Sea, that were classified as dry by NPD (meaning ...

The Barents Sea is a prospective area in terms of hydrocarbon resources with high ratio of discovery wells. This study focuses on reservoir quality of two sandstone reservoirs of Knurr and Stø Formations in the Hammerfest ...

The Bremstein Fault Complex is located on the Mid-Norwegian Continental Margin, where it functions as a boundary zone between the Halten Terrace and the Trøndelag Platform. There has been ongoing activity along the Bremstein ...

A large-scale 2D seismic sequence analysis of the Lower Cretaceous successions in the eastern part of the south-western Barents Sea is presented. Well and shallow borehole data are used to further constrain and assist the ...

This study deals with the weathering of basement, resulting particle formation, depositional conditions, provenance and mode of transportation of Triassic/Jurassic strata in evolving rift basin setting in Stord Basin. Data ...

The main focus of this study is to image reservoir quality of the ‘Alka discovery located in the southern part of the Hammerfest Basin, Norwegian Barents Sea. A total of five exploration wells (7120/12-1, 7120/12-2, ...

This study focuses imaging reservoir quality of SW Loppa High using five exploration wells. The study area is located at the northern vicinity of the Hammerfest Basin, Norwegian Barents Sea. The geology of the Norwegian ...

The Late Cenozoic outbuilding in the northern North Sea and southeastern Norwegian Sea demonstrates strong relationship between uplift, erosion, subsidence, variations in relative sea level, basin infill, glacial dynamics ...

The Bjørnøya Fan is located at the SW Barents Sea continental margin and consists of a succession of glaciomarine sediments up to 3.5-4 km in thickness. The evolution of the Bjørnøya Fan is closely related to the history ...

This study describes weathering pattern in saprolites of the Vånga Granite along various profiles at Ivö Klack, Scania (southern Sweden) and provides a model against which paleo-chemical weathering of ancient profiles (e.g. ...

This study deals with the diagenesis and reservoir quality of deeply buried (>4 km) Upper Jurassic sandstones from the Central Graben, North Sea. Petrophysical and petrographical analysis has been done on the cored interval ...

The Barents Sea petroleum system contains multiple source rock intervals, with hydrocarbon generation having occurred over a long geological time. As such the area possibly represents an overfilled petroleum system. Still, ...

The Stø and Nordmela Formations of Early to Middle Jurassic age are represented in wells 7119/12-1, 7120/7-1and 7120/7-3 located in the Tromsø/Hammerfest transition zone area and in wells 7120/8-1, 7120/9-1, 7121/4-1, ...

The Ling Depression is a structural feature with a unique orientation in the Central North Sea which depicts the trend and linkage of deep extensional zones with the overlying structures. The Ling Depression is studied and ...

Forty-eight (48) core samples from well 35/4-1, 6610/3-1 and well 6610/2-1S were obtained from the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. These wells are classified by NPD as dry. These core samples have been studied geochemically, ...

Geologically, Barents Sea consists of platform areas and basins, covered by significant amounts of sedimentary rocks ranging from Paleozoic to Cenozoic age. Several phases of uplift have been occurred, highly influenced ...

Late Cenozoic outbuilding of the mid-Norwegian continental shelf (62º N-69º 30’N) demonstrates strong relationship between uplift, erosion, subsidence, variations in relative sea level, basin infill, glacial dynamics and ...

The Southern part of Ringvassøy- Loppa Fault Complex is an extensional fault complex separating the Hammerfest Basin and the Tromsø Basin. Basement movements are believed to have caused the fault complex to work as a long- ...

Seismic data contains reflections along with diffractions. Diffractions in seismic data are related to different features like faults, fractures, pinchouts and rough edges of salt bodies. It follows that suppression of ...

Abstract The present study involves 1D basin modelling of two (2) wells from the Haltenbanken Area (the Midgard well 6407/4-1 and the Smørbukk well 6506/12-9S), by employing BAS software. The core objective is to estimate ...

The NE-SW and N-S trending, Bjørnøyrenna Fault Complex is obviously belongs to an extensional regime. It is comprised of three main master faults (MF1, MF2 & MF3) in the study area. This large array of master faults further ...

Structural analysis of the Knølegga Fault Complex has been done using 2D seismic reflection data set in order to understand the fault geometries, fault associated features, fault segmentation and temporal evolution of the ...

The Leirdjupet Fault Complex is located in the southwestern Barents Sea and trends N-S from the Loppa High towards the Stappen High between 73°-73°55'N at 21°E. The fault complex divides the Bjørnøya Basin into a deep ...

Marine seismic acquisition represents one of the most used geophysical exploration techniques employed in the petroleum industry today. However, one major challenge is that the meaningful part of the data will be distorted ...

A grid of 2D regional seismic lines from six different surveys together with Bouguer gravity anomaly data and borehole data sets have been used to get an insight of the structural development of the Ringkøbing-Fyn High and ...

The deeply buried Upper Jurassic sandstone reservoirs of the South Viking Graben are differentiated by highly variant reservoir quality. A combined petrophysical and petrographical approach is incorporated to analyze these ...

Detailed structural analysis of the Troms-Finnmark Fault Complex is implemented in order to understand the associated structural configuration and the stress apparatus responsible for the present day architecture of the ...

The study deals with the diagenesis and reservoir quality prediction of deeply buried Rotliegend sandstone from Northern Permian Basin (NPB) in the Central Graben. Cored intervals from two wells (1/3-5 and 2/10-2) have ...

Conventional marine data is acquired by towed streamers and air-gun sources deployed at small distances below the sea level. A towed hydrophone records both upward travelling waves as well as downward travelling waves ...

Abstract In this thesis the Paleocene and Eocene transition is the main focus of the analyses of Svalbard cores BH 10/06, BH 07/08 and BH 09/06, from the Central Basin. Special emphasis is laid on biotic responses ...

The PDO approved Goliat Field, situated on the Finnmark Platform in SW Barents Sea region represents the first oil field to be developed on the Norwegian Barents shelf. Cenozoic exhumation still poses significant challenges ...

ABSTRACT This study investigates the diagenesis and reservoir quality of Upper Jurassic Sandstones from the Central Graben. Petrophysical and petrographical studies have been done on cored interval from well 2/1-6. Precipitation ...

The Hoop Fault Complex is an old zone of weakness in SW Barents Sea which intersects Bjarmeland Platform and separates Maud Basin from Mercurius High. Reactivations during its long-lived activity have brought to the complex ...

Asterias Fault Complex is present in the SW Barnets Sea and is extensional in nature. This fault complex separates the Hammerfest Basin in south from the Loppa High in north Variations in structural trend and frequency of ...

The purpose of the thesis is to characterize the reservoir quality in the Middle and Upper Jurassic sandstone reservoirs in the South Viking Graben, with emphasis on the differences between the Hugin and Draupne formations. ...

The Barents Sea is an active area for frontier petroleum exploration .This study focuses on an area across the Tornerose prospect in the Hammerfest Basin, South West of the Barents Sea. Cenozoic exhumation of the entire ...

Geologically the mid-Norwegian continental shelf (62°-69°30’N) has undergone several phases of rifting, uplifting and erosion, but the present shape of the shelf/margin developed during Plio/Pleistocene time. During late ...

This study examines the diagenesis and reservoir quality of Triassic sandstones in the Central Graben, Norwegian sector. Cored reservoir intervals from four wells (6/3-1, 7/8-4, 7/11-8, 7/11-9) have been examined by ...

A total of 21 core samples from well 2/7-26S of the Embla Field and One reference sample from Oseberg have been geochemically studied. In the studied well the Embla Field consists of two main reservoir units, the Upper and ...

The main scientific goal with this thesis is to study the configuration of the main Caledonian geological structures within the Lower Silurian succession, with emphasis on back-thrusts at Sundvollen, Ringerike in southern ...

Seismic 2D datasets and well ties, linked up to previous studies done in the Loppa High area are the major elements of the thesis work. To better resolve the geological history of the paleo-Loppa High area the depositional ...

In this work I have in detailed tried to determine the age of the source rock that is responsible for petroleum impregnation in onshore samples from Novaya Zemlya. I have worked with a selected set of 6 samples. Pilot ...

In this study the transgressive-regressive developments and depositional environment of the Frysjaodden Formation in the Central Tertiary Basin, Spitsbergen have been reconstructed. The depositional environment has been ...

Uplift movements, followed by erosion are amongst the main reason of the lack of success in oil discovery. These processes can dramatically affect the petroleum system, in terms of destruction of oil accumulation, and need ...

Conclusion: This study focused on the structure and Late Cretaceous Early Cenozoic tectonic evolution of central part of the Sørvestsnaget Basin. Its location in the southwestern Barents Sea which is close to the ...

In this study 2D and 3D seismic data has been interpreted in a study which covers the western parts of the Hammerfest Basin, in the south-western Barents Sea. The purpose of the thesis has been to study the Middle Jurassic ...

Late Jurassic transgressions in the North Sea area developed thirteen genetic stratigraphic sequences containing sand bodies with in the shale dominated Heather and Draupne formations in the South Viking Graben area. ...

Vertical seismic profiling is a borehole seismic method that provides valuable and reliable information about the local geological structure; with superior resolution compared to surface seismic. The recorded multicomponent ...

Quartz cement, precipitated as syntaxial overgrowths on detrital quartz grains, is the dominant porosity-destroying process in deeply buried quartz-rich sandstones and has proven to be predominantly a pressure insensitive, ...

In this thesis the aim was to investigate the largely unknown potential of coals of the Tettegras Fm. (Billefjord Gr.) in two wells from the Finnmark Platform and to evaluate the generation and expulsion properties of these ...

The aim of this study is to achieve a better understanding of the deep basin and crustal configuration of the transition zone between the Møre and Vøring margins. The area selected is based on the distribution of a set of ...