Christopher Lloyd, Mads Huuse, Bonita J. Barrett, Margaret Stewart, A. Newton,
... suitable storage sites, with robust reservoir seals. The Utsira Formation in the northern North Sea has been ... different areas for CO 2 containment across the Utsira Formation. The seal and overburden were mapped using ... were summed to map overall CC of the Utsira Fm. Indicators for shallow gas and migration were ... lowest CC are in the west of the Utsira Fm. Here, sandstones within the Seal Interval are ... In the southeast, dipping stratigraphy downlaps onto the Utsira Fm., increasing the potential for connection with glacially‐ ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
2021 - Wiley | Basin Research
Machteld van den Broek, Andrea Ramírez, Heleen Groenenberg, Filip Neele, Peter Viebahn, Wim Turkenburg, André Faaij,
... a CO2 trunkline from the Netherlands to the Utsira formation in the Norwegian part of the North ... 2050 compared to 1990, and investment in the Utsira trunkline may be cost-effective from 2020–2030 ... have been transported from the Netherlands to the Utsira formation. However, if the Utsira trunkline is not used for transportation of CO2 ... the Netherlands would have been stored in the Utsira formation by 2050. On the short term, CO2 ... fields appears more cost-effective than in the Utsira formation, but as yet there are major uncertainties ...
Tópico(s): Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
2009 - Elsevier BV | International journal of greenhouse gas control
Ulrik Gregersen, Peter N. Johannessen,
The sandy quartzose parts of the Utsira Formation, the Middle Miocene to mid Pliocene Utsira Sand, extends north–south along the Viking Graben near the UK/Norwegian median line ... km and 75–130 km east–west. The Utsira Sand is located in basin-restricted seismic depocentres, ... the Shetland Platform area with Hutton Sands. The Utsira Sand reaches thicknesses up to ca. 300 m ... Pleistocene parts, and the total thickness covering the Utsira Sand is in most places more than 800 ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geophysical Studies
2007 - Elsevier BV | Marine and Petroleum Geology
Martin J. Head, James B. Riding, Tor Eidvin, R. A. Chadwick,
... northern North Sea. At its base lies the Utsira Sand, a dominantly sandy regional saline aquifer that ... condensate field. A 'mudstone drape' immediately overlies the Utsira Sand, forming the caprock for this aquifer. The upper part of the Utsira Sand was recently dated as Early Pliocene, but ... A-11. The samples lie closely above the Utsira Sand. Results give a Gelasian (late Late Pliocene) ... into depositional processes. It seems likely that the Utsira Sand, a basinal lowstand deposit, became progressively starved ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2004 - Elsevier BV | Marine and Petroleum Geology
V.T.H. Pham, Fridtjof Riis, I.T. Gjeldvik, E. Halland, I.M. Tappel, Per Aagaard,
... of CO2 storage in a southern part of Utsira/Skade aquifer, a reservoir model was built to ... of CO2 from the Skade Formation into the Utsira Formation above. CO2 from Skade sand can penetrate through a clay layers into Utsira sand if the clay between Skade sand and Utsira sand has permeability from 0.1 mD and ... Mt (million tonne) CO2 can be injected in Utsira sand in the segment model with 4 horizontal ...
Tópico(s): Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
2013 - Elsevier BV | Energy
R. A. Chadwick, Gareth Williams, John Williams, D.J. Noy,
... stored around 14 Mt of CO2 in the Utsira Sand and provides a unique opportunity to monitor ... for sandstones, calibrated against measured data from the Utsira Sand, indicate that pore pressure increases of <1 ... the mean. Observed mean time-shifts through the Utsira Sand were 0.097 ms in 2001 and ... present, so the results are consistent with the Utsira reservoir having wide lateral hydraulic connectivity.
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
2012 - Elsevier BV | International journal of greenhouse gas control
Neil Strachan, Ric Hoefnagels, Andrea Ramírez, Machteld van den Broek, Audun Fidje, Kari Espegren, Pernille Seljom, Markus Blesl, Tom Kober, Poul Erik Grohnheit,
... the feasibility and trade-offs in using the Utsira formation as a common North Sea CO2 storage ... of which 110–120 MtCO2 is stored in Utsira) under an 80% CO2 reduction target. Modelled country ... to regional (EU) commodity trading. From 2030 onwards, Utsira plays a key role within the CO2 storage ... estimated (and uncertain) maximum annual injection rates into Utsira which could potentially represent a significant constraint.
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2011 - Elsevier BV | International journal of greenhouse gas control
Anders Mattias Lundmark, Tormod Sæther, Ronald Sørlie,
... significance of two basement granitoids cored on the Utsira High, Viking Graben, North Sea, are constrained by ... Caledonides allow a first-order correlation of the Utsira High basement with the surrounding on- and offshore Caledonides. The Utsira High occupies a similar position with respect to ... Shetland Basin, forming a northwards continuation of the Utsira High basement. We propose that the offshore volcanic ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2013 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
Stefan Piasecki, Ulrik Gregersen, Peter N. Johannessen,
Abstract The Utsira Formation covers an area of at least 75×450 km 2 with its main, sandy depocentre in the ... by turbidite flows. Earlier biostratigraphical studies of the Utsira Formation have been based on cuttings and the ... The age of the cored interval of the Utsira Formation is therefore considered to be Early Pliocene, ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal ecosystems
2002 - Elsevier BV | Marine and Petroleum Geology
Christopher Jackson, Karla E. Kane, Eirik Larsen,
... stratigraphic evolution of the SW margin of the Utsira High, northern North Sea rift system. During the ... submarine bathymetry on the SW margin of the Utsira High. Salt withdrawal may have been related to: ( ... stratigraphic evolution of the SW margin of the Utsira High and has implications for (i) facies distribution ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
2010 - Zoological Society of London | Petroleum Geoscience
Christian Hermanrud, Gunn M. G. Teige, Martin Iding, Ola Eiken, Lars Rennan, S. Østmo,
... 10 years of CO 2 injection into the Utsira Formation, in the Sleipner area, offer a unique ... fluid flow processes. The CO 2 in the Utsira Formation has flowed laterally beneath thin, intra-formational ... those of the CO 2 migration in the Utsira Formation. This result points to the presence of ... A circular depression at the top of the Utsira Formation that existed prior to the injection may ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2010 - Zoological Society of London | Geological Society London Petroleum Geology Conference series
John L. Wild, Nowell A. Briedis,
... The Balder and Ringhorne Tertiary oilfields of the Utsira High are a cluster of prominent Palaeocene mounds, ... sands, compensationally stacked along the flanks of the Utsira palaeo‐high, with intervening layers of hemipelagic shale. ... the formation of the Palaeocene mounds of the Utsira High, including normal post‐depositional compaction, fluidization by ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
2010 - Wiley | Basin Research
Gary H. Isaksen, K. Haakan I. Ledje,
The greater Utsira High area is located within the southern part of quadrants 24 and 25 and the northern part of ... fields) and along the western margin of the Utsira High to form a combination of stratigraphic and ... entire western margin and northern nose of the Utsira High. Both upper and lower Draupne source intervals ...
Tópico(s): Geological Studies and Exploration
2001 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists | AAPG Bulletin
Magnus Wangen, Sarah E. Gasda, Tore Ingvald Bjørnarå,
... of injecting large volumes of fluid in the Utsira Formation. Our modelling is based on Biot's ... with the injection rate. The strain of the Utsira Formation and the related surface uplift can be ... the modelling is the mechanical properties of the Utsira sand and the cap rock.
Tópico(s): Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
2016 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
Christopher Sæbø Serck, Alvar Braathen, Muhammad Hassaan, Jan Inge Faleide, Lars Riber, G. Messager, Ivar Midtkandal,
The Utsira High (North Sea) records rift faulting that culminates with Jurassic-Cretaceous crustal-scale rollover towards the Viking ... crustal-scale shear systems that domed under the Utsira High during the Devonian, as indicated by mapping ... wedges in the Viking Graben and establishing the Utsira High as a crustal-scale rollover structure.
Tópico(s): Geological and Geophysical Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Tectonophysics
Erik Lindeberg, Jean-François Vuillaume, Amir Ghaderi,
... they have a penetration depth that affects the Utsira formation. The results showed that CO2 can be ... the sealing rock. The storage capacity of the Utsira formation was studied both by static volume estimates ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
2009 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
I. A. Munz, H. Johansen, Olaf Huseby, E. Rein, O. Scheire,
... resolution and vertical stratification. Aquifer water from the Utsira Formation is injected for pressure support, and reinjection ... been applied since the onset of water production. Utsira Formation water has high Mg, low Ba and ... water content. Since the Sr content in the Utsira water is low, the 87Sr/86Sr ratio is ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
2009 - Elsevier BV | Marine and Petroleum Geology
... a multilayer reflection pattern within the relatively shallow Utsira Sand. This multireflective appearance within the sand layer ... the reflected event from a horizon below the Utsira Sand, we estimate 4D traveltime shifts caused by ... text] layers because 4D time shifts below the Utsira Sand only provide information about the average time ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
2009 - Society of Exploration Geophysicists | Geophysics
I. Akervoll, Erik Lindeberg, Alf Sebastian Lackner,
The feasibility to recover stored CO2 from the Utsira formation at Sleipner has been studied by reservoir ... are used to build a reservoir model. The Utsira formation is intersected by thin horizontal discontinuous shale ...
Tópico(s): Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
2009 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
Christian Hermanrud, Terje Andresen, Ola Eiken, Hilde Hansen, A.D. Janbu, J. Lippard, Hege Nordgård Bolås, T. H. Simmenes, Gunn M. G. Teige, S. Østmo,
... CO2 has not reached the top of the Utsira Formation, but has instead migrated laterally below imperfect ... trapping below the structural spill point in the Utsira Formation is due to local mini traps, capillary ...
Tópico(s): Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
2009 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
Per Eirik Strand Bergmo, Alv-Arne Grimstad, Erik Lindeberg, Fridtjof Riis, Wenche T. Johansen,
The southern part of the Utsira formation has been identified as a possible candidate that may require only small amounts of extra data collection to be qualified ... 62.5 years illustrates that this part of Utsira provides a particularly robust CO2 storage site. For ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
2009 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
... angle (AVA) inversion is performed on the top Utsira Sand reflector at the Sleipner field, North Sea, ... text] injected from a point deeper in the Utsira Sand. The focus is on the postmigration processing ...
Tópico(s): Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
2011 - Society of Exploration Geophysicists | Geophysics
Håvard Alnes, Ola Eiken, S. L. Nooner, G. S. Sasagawa, Torkjell Stenvold, Mark A. Zumberge,
... simultaneous contributions from: (i) injected CO2 in the Utsira Formation, (ii) water flow into the Sleipner gas ... the formation water. While the CO2 in the Utsira Fm. at Sleipner is supercritical, it is fairly ... term predictions of the CO2 stored in the Utsira Fm. We give an upper bound on the ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
2011 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
K. Labat, Nicolas Delépine, V. Clochard, Patrice Ricarte,
... dioxide (CO 2 ) in a saline aquifer, the Utsira sand formation. We focused our 4D inversion study ... about 45 ms at the base of the Utsira aquifer. The joint 4D inversion results show more ...
Tópico(s): CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
2012 - EDP Sciences | Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles
... western Norway are discussed; on the islands of Utsira (Paus, 1990) and Blomøy (Mangerud, 1970). During the ... the presence of pollen of thermophilous taxa at Utsira. The plant macrofossil analyses at these same sites ... willow shrubs and Empetrum dwarf-shrub heath at Utsira, and of Salix herbacea-dominated vegetation at Blomøy. ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
1993 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
... Pliocene phase, resulting in deposition of shelfal sands (Utsira Formation). During the latter phase, the northern North ... marine settings to the north and south. The Utsira Formation sands accumulated in this narrow strait in ... Oligocene-Miocene including redefinitions of the Skade and Utsira formations. The Oligocene-Miocene succession in the northern ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geophysical Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Norwegian Petroleum Society Special publication/Special publication - Norwegian Petroleum Society, NPF
Peter Zweigel, Rob Arts, Ane Elisabet Lothe, E LINDEBERG,
... being injected into sands of the Miocene-Pliocene Utsira Formation, which is overlain by thick Pliocene shales. ... 35%–40%) and extremely permeable (approximately 2 D) Utsira sands are organized into approximately 30 m thick ...
Tópico(s): Geological Modeling and Analysis
2004 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
Xiaolin Hou, H. Dahlgaard, S.P. Nielsen,
... Baltic Sea, Roskilde Fjord in Zealand of Denmark, Utsira in the western Norwegian coast and NW Greenland ... 2 years from La Hague to Klint and Utsira and 9–14 years to NW Greenland. Transfer ... La Hague to Klint, 60 yr m−3to Utsira and 1·2 yr m−3to NW Greenland. ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal ecosystems
2000 - Elsevier BV | Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
Odd Andersen, Halvor Møll Nilsen, Knut–Andreas Lie,
... provide estimates of CO2 storage capacity of the Utsira Formation using the recently provided datasets from the ... that the limiting factor for CO2 storage at Utsira is the efficient use of available trapping mechanisms, ...
Tópico(s): Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
2014 - | Proceedings
John Inge Svendsen, Jason P. Briner, Jan Mangerud, Nicolás E. Young,
... samples from glacially transported erratics on the island Utsira, located in the path of the NCIS about ... retreat for the NCIS. The 10Be ages from Utsira and Karmøy suggest that the ice stream broke ... that the mainland slightly east of the islands Utsira and Karmøy remained ice covered until about 16 ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2014 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews