Webinar: Organic chemostratigraphy of Lower–Upper Triassic organic-rich mudstones in Svalbard

Short summary:

Triassic organic-rich black shales are regionally important source rock units on the Norwegian Barents Shelf, with proven liquid hydrocarbon contributions in, e.g., the Goliat Field in the South and the Wisting Field towards North.

On Svalbard, lateral facies-equivalent, Spathian–Carnian black shales are relatively easy to access and sample, allowing a rare opportunity to investigate the stratigraphic development of Triassic source rock equivalents on the Norwegian Barents Shelf.

During this Force webinar, I will present a high-resolution organic chemostratigraphic framework derived from Spathian–Carnian source rock extracts from Svalbard and use it to discuss the formation of Triassic source rocks on the Barents Shelf.

I will also try to correlate these extracts with oils from the 7220/11-1 Alta, 7120/1-3 Gohta, 7324/8-1 Wisting Central and 7324/7-2 Hanssen discoveries on the Norwegian Barents Shelf.

A short discussion on facies effects on GCMS-derived thermal maturity parameters will also be included.

Short bio (of the presenter or main contributor):

Dr. Fredrik Wesenlund received a MSc in petroleum geology and petroleum geophysics from the University in Oslo (2016), investigating source–oil and oil–oil correlations of extracts and oils from the Edvard Grieg and Johan Sverdrup Fields on the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea.

He went on to a PhD in lithostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy at the Research Centre for Arctic Petroleum Exploration (ARCEx) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (2022),

focusing on understanding black shale formation and source rock development on the Norwegian Barents Shelf using the Triassic lateral facies equivalent and organic-rich shales from Svalbard as analogues.

He started his professional career at Applied Petroleum Technology in 2022 as a petroleum geochemist and project manager.

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