New research article about the Barents Sea North
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12/06/2023 The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has contributed a research article in the internationally recognised periodical Geological Society of London (GSL) Special Publication Memoir no 57.
The title of the special publication is Sedimentary successions of the Arctic region and their hydrocarbon prospectivity.
The authors behind the article, which is titled North Barents composite tectono-sedimentary element, are geologists Bjørn Anders Lundschien, Rune Mattingsdal, Sondre Krogh Johansen and Stig-Morten Knutsen.
The article is included as one of 67 unique contributions on geological developments in the Arctic.
The NPD was asked by the Books Editorial Committee to write the article about the Barents Sea North, since the area has not been opened for petroleum activities, which means that the resource authorities are the only ones who have data from the area.
The purpose of all the articles is to compare geological provinces in the Arctic. The articles follow the same template and structure, thus ensuring that the different geological provinces can be compared in the best possible manner.
"The work on our article started in early 2016 and is based on several years of seismic interpretation and interpretation of core materials from our shallow stratigraphic drilling, alongside several years of field studies onshore in Svalbard," says Bjørn Anders Lundschien, who led the work on the article.
The article contains an updated structural element map, which forms the basis for updating the NPD’s structural element map on the NPD FactPages.
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Updated: 12/06/2023