Correlation in Hydrocarbon Exploration: Proceedings of the conference Correlation in Hydrocarbon Exploration organized by the Norwegian Petroleum Society and held in Bergen, Norway, 3–5 October 1988

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Tectonic subsidence and sea-level changes: a reappraisal....Pages 3-11
Rapid eustatic changes—never globally uniform....Pages 13-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Strontium-isotope stratigraphy: applications in basin modelling and reservoir correlation....Pages 23-31
Stratigraphic age determination from inversion of vitrinite reflectance data and sterane isomerization data: correlation at its best and worst....Pages 33-43
Computer modelling of seismic facies: implications for seismic and sequence stratigraphy....Pages 45-51
The application of a viscoelastic lithosphere model to isostatic subsidence in backstripping....Pages 53-59
Interactive quantitative matching of stratigraphic sequences of numerical lithostates based on gene-typing techniques....Pages 61-76
A rapid correlation method for petroleum population mapping within individual petroleum reservoirs: applications to petroleum reservoir description....Pages 77-85
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Correlation of Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sequences between Svalbard, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and northern Alaska....Pages 89-98
Late Palaeozoic sequence correlations, North Greenland, Svalbard and the Barents Shelf....Pages 99-111
Triassic transgressive-regressive cycles in the Sverdrup Basin, Svalbard and the Barents Shelf....Pages 113-130
Triassic biostratigraphy of the Barents Sea area....Pages 131-153
Sequence correlation: Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic succession, Canadian and Norwegian Arctic....Pages 155-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Outline of Triassic stratigraphy and structure in the central and northern North Sea....Pages 173-189
Correlation of transgressive-regressive depositional sequences in the Middle Jurassic Brent/Vestland Group megacycle, Viking Graben, Norwegian North Sea....Pages 191-200
Neodymium isotope stratigraphy of Gullfaks oilfield....Pages 201-215
Use of heavy minerals in lithostratigraphic correlation, with examples from Brent sandstones of the northern North Sea....Pages 217-230
Mid-Mesozoic syn-rift turbidite systems: controls and predictions....Pages 231-241
Lithostratigraphic correlation of Upper Jurassic sandstones within the Norwegian Central Graben: sedimentological and tectonic implications....Pages 243-251
Shetland Group: stratigraphic subdivision and regional correlation in the Norwegian North Sea....Pages 253-269
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Correlation of Triassic to Lower Jurassic sequences, Snorre Field and adjacent areas, northern North Sea....Pages 273-289
Biostratigraphic correlation within the Triassic Lunde Formation in the Snorre Area....Pages 291-297
The Cook Formation, an offshore sand ridge in the Oseberg area, northern North Sea....Pages 299-312
Correlation of depositional patterns in the Ness Formation, Oseberg area....Pages 313-326
The role of correlation in generating the Heidrun Field geological model....Pages 327-338
The application of palynology in the interpretation of Brae Formation stratigraphy and reservoir geology in the South Brae Field area, British North Sea....Pages 339-356
Palynostratigraphical principles as applied in the Jurassic of the Troll and Draugen Fields, offshore Norway....Pages 357-365
Correlation of calcite-cemented layers in shallow-marine sandstones of the Fensfjord Formation in the Brage Field....Pages 367-375
Back Matter....Pages 377-381