Duration - 1/6/2014 - 31/7/2017
Funding - A multi-company project funded by the Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP)
Co-ordinator - Fault Analysis Group, UCD
Basic Aims
In much of the NW European continental shelf hydrocarbons are most often contained within Upper Jurassic traps, though increasing numbers of both structural and stratigraphic traps are hosted within younger Mesozoic and Cenozoic sequences. In this project, we propose to establish much improved constraints on both the nature and spatial distribution of Cenozoic structures within offshore Ireland which have the potential not only to provide for up-fault leakage of pre-existing traps, potentially to traps at higher structural levels, but could also form anticlinal or fault-related traps. Combining structural analysis and considerations of hydrocarbon migration, this project will identify the factors controlling Cenozoic deformation and fault reactivation and those impacting trap formation and integrity.
The principal objectives of the project are to:
• Establish the geometry and kinematics of Cenozoic deformation in offshore Ireland.
• Analyse the kinematic evolution of trap-bounding reactivated faults in offshore Ireland and determine the factors controlling reactivation.
• Identify the Cenozoic deformations potentially impacting trap formation and integrity.
Contact: Stratos Delogkos
Tel: +353 1 716 2092
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