The Field Experience The Critical Evaluation of the Petroleum System of the Wessex Basin

Mohammed Surty 2508892 MSc Petroleum Engineering

Content
Aims Plan of Action Wessex Basin Wytch Farm Bridport Sands Stair Hole, Lulworth Cove Kimmeridge Clays Conclusion

AIMS
What we aimed to achieve?
What did we do? Why did we want to find?
Grain Size Sorting Source rocks? Reservoir Rocks? Plays and Migration?

The Plan of Action

DAY 1 Wytch Farm Oil Field DAY 2 Bridport Sands, Stair Hole, Kimmeridge Clays

Overview Wessex Basin

Location

Stratigraphy

Wessex Basin
Source rocks

Kimmeridge clay, Oxford Lower Lias Reservoir rocks Sherwood Bridport

Day 1- Wytch Farm Oil Field

Development
Stage 1 Started in 1979 Infill drilling started in 1998 still ongoing

Production & Recovery Production grew from 4,000 to 6,000 barrels per day (950 m3/d) (bpd) by 1984 Eventually peaked at 110,000 bbl/d (17,000 m3/d) in 1997; By 2002 this had declined to 50,000 bbl/d (7,900 m3/d). In 2002 it was estimated that the field contained reserves of 65.40 million tonnes of oil (479.6 million barrels), 4.73 million tonnes

Wytch Farm Oil Field

Challenges
SSSI (sites of special specific interest World Heritage Coastline National Trust Land

Environmental Conservation
What measures were taken Queens Award

Day 2 Bridport Sands

Bridport
Alternating beds Well sorted Low clay content Porosity 32% Permeability 300mD High energy marine depositional environment

Stair Hole

Kimmeridge Clays

Kimmeridge Clays
Main oil shale Low porosity Fine to medium fine Well sorted Laminars Fossils present Greatest potential

Conclusion
Wytch Farm Oil Field is the largest onshore field in Western Europe A great example of an environmentally friendly oil field The effects of plays and migration We can see how faults, laminars and environment effect oil flow

Conclusion
Great working in teams Better knowledge of Petroleum System First hand experience

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