Syllabus/achievement requirements

Obligatory Literature

Brown, Alistair R., Interpretation of three-dimenional seismic data, 6th Edition (2004). AAPG Memoir 42 and SEG Investigation in Geophysics, No. 9. 542p

Bond, C.E., Gibbs, A.D., Shipton, Z.K., and Jones, S. 2007. What do you think this is? ¡°Conceptual uncertainty¡± in geoscience interpretation. GSA Today: v. 17, no. 11, pp 4-10.

Recommended Literature General

Sheriff, R. E., 1985, Aspects of seismic resolution, in O. R. Berg and D. Woolverton, eds., Seismic stratigraphy II: an integrated approach to hydrocarbon exploration: AAPG Memoir 39, p. 1-10

Sheriff, R.E.: Understanding the Fresnel zone, 1996. Geophysical Corner. 2pp. Fulltext.

Sheriff, R.E.: Seismic Resolution: A key element, 2001. AAPG. Search and Discovery Article #40036. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/geophysical/sheriff02/index.htm.

Literature Study

General

Badley, M.E., Price, J.D., Rambech, D.C. and Agdestein, T.,1988. The structural evolution of the northern Viking Graben and its bearing upon extensional modes of basin formation. Journal of the Geological Society of London. 145, Part 3; Pages 455-472.

Gabrielsen, R.H., F?rseth, R.B., Steel, R.J., Idil, S., and Kl?vjan, O.S., 1990. Architectural styles of basin fill in the nortern Viking Graben. In: Blundell, D.J. and Gibbs, A.D. (Eds) Tectonic Evolution of the North Sea Rifts. Oxford Science Publications, Oxford. 158-179.

Ravn?s, R. and Steel, R. 1998. Architecture of marine rift-basin successions. AAPG Bulletin. 82; 1, Pages: 110-146; 1998.

Ravnas R; Nottvedt Arvid; Steel R J; Windelstad J. Syn-rift sedimentary architectures in the northern North Sea. Geological Society Special Publications. 167; Pages: 133-177; 2000.

Spencer, A. and Larsen, V.B.: "Fault traps in the Northern North Sea" in Hardman, R. F. P. & Brooks, J. (eds): Tectonic Events Responsible for Britain's Oil and Gas Reserves, 1990. Geological Society of London. Geological Society Special Publication No 55, pp 281-298. Fulltext.

Troll Field

Birtles, R., 1986. The seismic flatspot and the discovery and delineation of the Troll Field. In: Spencer, A.M. (Ed.) Habitat of hydrocarbons on the Norwegian continental shelf; proceedings of an international conference. Graham & Trotman. London, United Kingdom, 207-215.

Bolle, L. 1992. Troll Field: Norway's Giant Offshore Gas Field: Chapter 28. Volume M 54: Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade 1978-1988. Pages 447 - 458.

Dreyer T., Whitaker M., Dexter J., Flesche H., and Larsen E., 2005. From spit system to tide-dominated delta; integrated reservoir model of the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord Formation on the Troll West Field. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe Proceedings of the Conference. 6; Pages: 423-448.

Gibbons, K., Hellem, T., Kjemperud, A, Nio, S.D. and Vebenstad, K.: "Sequence architecture, facies development and carbonate-cemented horizons in the Troll Field reservoir, offshore Norway" in Ashton, M.: Advances in Reservoir Geology, 1993. Geological Society of London. Geological Society Special Publication No. 69, pp. I 31.. Fulltext.

Hellem, T., Kjemperud, A., and Ovrebo, O.K., 1986. The Troll Field; a geological/ geophysical model established by the PLO85 Group. In: Spencer, A.M. (Ed.) Habitat of hydrocarbons on the Norwegian continental shelf; proceedings of an international conference. Graham & Trotman. London, United Kingdom, 217-238.

Fact pages at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, http://factpages.npd.no/factpages/