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THE BRENT FIELD, BLOCK 211/29, UK NORTH SEA.
Background
Discovered in July 1971, the Brent Field is now one of the North Sea’s most prolific hydrocarbon producers, generating 47million barrels of oil in 1998 alone. It lies 186km northeast of Lerwick, Scotland, in the northern North Sea with a water depth of only 140m, and contains oil of 38°API, a light crude, typical of the North Sea. ... As a result we are now looking more carefully at ‘new’ areas of the Brent field. ... The lithostratigraphy of the wells can be split into five main subdivisions, four of which, the Broom, Rannoch, Etive and Ness formations, belong to the Brent Group, and the fifth, which underlies the Broom (probably conformably) is the top of the Dunlin Group. ...
Conclusion
The well logs clearly pass through an area of high economic potential, however, further exploration to the east could possibly reveal even more prospective hydrocarbons, due to the tilted nature of the fault block and the improving quality of the sandstone reservoir in that direction.
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