PETROLEUM GEOLOGICAL ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN
The Southern Permian Basin Atlas (SPBA) project is a joint project of the Geological Surveys of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland and was initiated by Ken Glennie. The atlas was published in May 2010 in both paper and digital format. The project has been supported by a wide range of petroleum E&P companies, licensing authorities, research institutes and universities.
Introduction
The atlas celebrates a milestone in the Southern Permian Basin area: the discovery of the Groningen gas field in 1959, one of the largest gas fields in Europe. As the Southern Permian Basin gas and oil province continues to mature and with field sizes inevitably decreasing, more and more careful data integration and geoscientific effort will be required to discover new reserves. These efforts will have to be used to augment the recovery of proven hydrocarbon accumulations as well. The large volume of data that is or will be made available publicly allows the production of an authoritative compilation to support the E&P industry in its efforts to fully develop the basin in the coming decades. At the same time, easy and inexpensive access to the accumulated knowledge held by educational bodies will lead to a better understanding of the Southern Permian Basin area and the documentation of this knowledge will assist in the training of the next generation of petroleum geologists.
The atlas aims to present a comprehensive and systematic overview of the results of over 150 years of petroleum exploration and research in the Southern Permian Basin area and stimulate the petroleum E&P industry to continue their activities in this mature basin. It contains a review of the entire Southern Permian Basin area, covering the British, Belgium, Dutch, German, Danish and Polish sectors. The atlas addresses the geological evolution and hydrocarbon potential per stratigraphic interval. The paleogeographic and tectonic evolution is covered within the framework of the principal stratigraphic intervals, from the pre-Cambrian basement to the Holocene. In addition, petroleum generation, migration, trapping and production as well as the history of exploration and licensing in the basin are covered, together with a summary of resource assessments and other potential options for use of the deep subsurface such as gas storage and geothermal energy.
The SPBA has now been released for free in digital form. Below are the download links for each chapter. The paper version is no longer available.
SPBA DOWNLOADS
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Cover |
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Contributors, Foreword, Sponsors, Organisation and Acknowledgements |
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Chapter 1 – Introduction, stratigraphic framework and mapping |
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Chapter 2 – Crustal structure and structural framework |
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Chapter 3 – Tectonic evolution |
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Chapter 4 – Pre-Devonian |
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Chapter 5 – Devonian |
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Chapter 6 – Carboniferous |
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Chapter 7 – Rotliegend |
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Chapter 8 – Zechstein |
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Chapter 9 – Triassic |
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Chapter 10 – Jurassic |
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Chapter 11 – Cretaceous |
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Chapter 12 – Cenozoic |
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Chapter 13 – Petroleum generation and migration |
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Chapter 14 – Licensing and exploration history |
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Chapter 15 – Reserves and production history |
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Chapter 16 – Applied geology |
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Appendices, References, Index |
SPBA GIS Maps and Database product
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- SPBA Project Database containing various types of spatial data: well and seismic data, oil and gasfield attributes, geochemical and gas composition data.
- GIS Maps (as pdf) presented in the paper Atlas.
- GIS Maps (as mpk) presented in the paper Atlas, ready for import in ArcGIS.
- References (>2100) in EndNote, subdivided into reference lists per chapter.
See also: the SPBA GIS Maps and Database information form