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Mineral diagenesis and reservoir quality — the way forward: an introduction

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ

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The North Sea Basin has turned out to be a magnificent natural laboratory for studying the diagenesis of siliciclastic sediments. Today it is at the forefront of research which is the result of the successful collaboration between the oil industry and academia. The seeds of this success were simple. The enormous cost of hydrocarbon exploration and production in the North Sea encouraged the industry to seek urgently advances in many of their procedures including the prediction of reservoir quality and the techniques for measuring it. What better places are there than universities to generate original and unpredictable ideas and solutions to problems? Maturity has recently overtaken the North Sea Oil province, and the frenzy of frontier oil exploration has moved to other parts of the world. There are still economically viable hydrocarbon reserves sufficient to supply our needs for many decades. At this turning point in the history of North Sea oil exploration, it is important to review what has been learnt about hydrocarbon reservoirs, and how best to proceed in the future both for the benefit of the oil industry and for their scientific study.

Against this backcloth, the Clay Minerals Group of the Mineralogical Society embarked on two projects. The first, in collaboration with the PESGB, the London Petrophysical Society and the Geological Society, . . . [Full Text of this Article]