Correlation of hydrocarbon reservoir sandstones using heavy mineral provenance signatures: Examples from the north sea and adjacent areas

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Correlation of hydrocarbon reservoir sandstones is one of the most important economic applications for heavy mineral analysis. In this paper, we review the fundamental principles required for establishing correlation frameworks using heavy mineral data, and illustrate the applications of a wide variety of heavy mineral techniques using a number of case studies from hydrocarbon reservoirs in the North Sea and adjacent areas. The examples cover Triassic red-bed successions in the central North Sea and west of Shetland, which have been subdivided and correlated using provenance-sensitive ratio data and mineral morphologies; Middle Jurassic paralic sandstones in the northern North Sea, correlated using garnet geochemistry; Upper Jurassic deep water sandstones in the northern North Sea, discriminated using rutile geochemistry and detrital zircon age data; and the “real-time” application of the technique at well site in Devonian-Carboniferous fluvio-lacustrine sandstones of the Clair Field, west of Shetland.

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Morton, A., & McGill, P. (2018). Correlation of hydrocarbon reservoir sandstones using heavy mineral provenance signatures: Examples from the north sea and adjacent areas. Minerals, 8(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/min8120564

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