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The Southern North Sea Basin lies between England and the Netherlands. It has produced over 43 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from 123 gas fields. Exploration began in the 1960s with the discovery of the large Groningen gas field. The basin formed from the collision and rifting of tectonic plates during the Caledonian and Variscan orogenies. Key petroleum systems include Carboniferous coal source rocks and Permian reservoir sands sealed by salt deposits. Despite past production, the basin remains underexplored and holds potential for further hydrocarbon discoveries.

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The Southern North Sea Basin lies between England and the Netherlands. It has produced over 43 trillion cubic feet of natural gas from 123 gas fields. Exploration began in the 1960s with the discovery of the large Groningen gas field. The basin formed from the collision and rifting of tectonic plates during the Caledonian and Variscan orogenies. Key petroleum systems include Carboniferous coal source rocks and Permian reservoir sands sealed by salt deposits. Despite past production, the basin remains underexplored and holds potential for further hydrocarbon discoveries.

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Southern North Sea Basin

by
Nabil Bin Idris
SGI 140005

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Outline

Location
History
Tectonic Setting
Evolution of the Basin
Petroleum Systems
Conclusions

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Location
Southern North Sea basin Lies between England and The Netherlands
Gas producing basin

UKCS,Geological Basins

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History
Southern North Sea Basin has produced around 43.4 trillion
cubic feet (tcf) of gas from 123 gas fields by year end of
2009.

Some 856 exploration and appraisal wells led to the


discoveries of :
Rotliegen play
Triassic play
Carboniferous play
Exploration begin in
Groningen gas field

8337 Mboe
883 Mboe
726 Mboe
1960s

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Tectonic Setting
The North Sea was the site of a triple plate collision zone during
the Caledonian orogeny
The extension of Caledonian Orogeny initiated the rift basins
Early Devonian saw extensional tectonic regime forming a series
of graben
Variscan Orogeny compression cause the inversion and erosion
Rifiting reactivated in Triassic Jurassic
The inversion and erosion in Cretaceous Teritary resulted in
thining and onlap of the Chalk

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Evolution of Basin
Early Permian, NW Europe is a hot, barren
landscape
Ephemeral lakes become saline
Dessert sand forms preserved the
Carboniferous fern forests
Salt prcipitation formed as sea become
saline
Land emerged in Middle Jurassic and sand
deposited along the coast
Upper Jurassic, North Sea below sea level
became rift zone
Mudstone with algae content deposited
followed by sand
End Cretaceous white chalk deposited
Erosional material deposited in North Sea
Subsidence cause SR to depth forming
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Petroleum System
The Carboniferous source rock comprise mostly Westphalian and some
Namurian coals.
The products of burial of the equatorial swamps of a foreland basin

Permian sand become good reservoir due to thickness, porosity &


permeability
Effectively seal by Permian salt

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Conclusion
The southern North Sea is still unexplored for
hydrocarbon play
The Dinantian Carbonate Play has a huge potential
for hydrocarbon

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THANK YOU

Q&A
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