Heavy mineral stratigraphic analysis on the clair field, UK, west of shetlands: A unique real-time solution for red-bed correlation while drilling

Hydrocarbons in the Clair Field, west of the Shetland Islands, are hosted by Devonian–Carboniferous clastic red beds deposited in a nonmarine fluviolacustrine setting. The succession is almost entirely biostratigraphically barren and, hence, alternative approaches to reservoir correlation are required. Heavy mineral analysis (HMA), which subdivides clastic successions on the basis of changes in provenance and sediment transport history, has proven successful in establishing a high-resolution correlation framework for the Clair Field.

Publication Details

  • Type

    Journal Article

  • Title

    Heavy mineral stratigraphic analysis on the clair field, UK, west of shetlands: A unique real-time solution for red-bed correlation while drilling

  • Year

    2012

  • Author(s)

    Morton, A.C. and Milne, A.

  • Journal

    Petroleum Geoscience

  • Volume

    18

  • Issue

    1

  • Page(s)

    115-128

  • URL

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1354-079311-026

  • People

Charity and Education