Gluyas J.G., Hichens H.M. United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields

The Geological Society of London, 2003. — 1006 p. — ISBN 1-86239-089-4.This book contains a forward by Ian Abbots (Gulf Canada), editor of the best-selling Memoir 14, a review of how the major plays were discovered by Richard Hardman (Amerada Hess) and an introduction to the stratigraphical context of the UK's petroleum resources by John Underhilt (University of Edinburgh). Maps showing all of the UK fields in the context of their plays support Underhill's chapter.The main part of the book is divided into eight parts covering:
East Irish Sea Fields
Atlantic Margin Fields
Viking Graben Fields
Moray Firth Fields
Central Graben Fields
Southern North Sea Gas Fields
East Midlands Basin Fields
Weald and Wessex Basin FieldsEach of these sections is further divided into one or more chapters, whereby each chapter describes a field or cluster of fields. Each of the field description chapters follows a simple constant format:
Location history
Discovery method
Structure
Pre-discovery
Discovery
Post-discovery
Tectonic history
Regional structure
Local structure
Stratigraphy trap
Reservoir
Source
Reserves and production
Trap type
Seals
Faults etc
Depositional setting
Pore types & diagenesis
Porosity, permeability
Pressure relationships
Source beds
Maturation
Migration and charge
Petroleum in place
Petroleum reserves
Cumulative production
Recovery factor and reserves
Recovery factor through time, impact of geological work on reserves
Production rateThis common format should enable readers to get the data they need easily and efficiently. In general readers will find that for the older fields there is greater emphasis on the production story while on new fields the geological description is pre-eminent. There are about 130 fields described in this volume. One of the significant strengths of Memoir 14 is the presence of a large appendix containing summarized field data that includes geology, reservoir properties and fluid composition and properties.