WP1&2 Geology

Work package leaders: Assoc. Prof. Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, UiT, and Assoc. Prof Kim Senger, UNIS

Integrated and multidisciplinary basin studies are carried out to provide a better basis to assess the petroleum potential and reduce exploration risk in the Barents Sea. The basin architecture and evolution are linked to deep structures and processes with emphasis on tectonic inversion, Cenozoic uplift and erosion, source-to-sink analyses, and numerical and analogue modeling.

This work package also focuses on petroleum systems and play concepts in the Barents Sea and adjacent basins of the northernmost Atlantic with an overarching goal of contributing with new data and concepts that may aid in exploration and resource potential estimates of this frontier province.

Objectives

Provide a better basis to assess the petroleum potential and reduce exploration risk in the Barents Sea. Linking scales (both vertically and laterally), geological processes and offshore-onshore tectonostratigraphic relationships. Integrating and synthesizing results from ARCEx and complementary projects with focus on timing, causes and implications of basin development and petroleum systems.

Key research tasks

Task 1.1: Basin analysis (descriptive, quantitative)

Contraction/inversion structures
Marginal basins
Tectonic/basin modelling
Cenozoic uplift and erosion
Source-to-sink

Task 1.2: Petroleum system elements

Reservoir (characterisation/sedimentology/provenance)
o Geology of shallow reservoirs
Source
o onshore-offshore samples, Triassic
o biofacies, onshore Triassic
o onshore-offshore stratigraphy and tectonic links
Trap/seal analysis
o subsurface pressure (well data, Svalbard-Barents Sea)
o field studies (East Greenland) fractures/fluid flow
o Barents Sea case study: seal and trap analysis

Task 1.3: Quantitative analysis of petroleum systems and plays

Key input parameters, uncertainties, sensitivity studies,
Burial history – petroleum system modelling (Svalbard and Barents Sea)
Looking back – lessons learned

Task 1.4: Integration and synthesis

Basin evolution (mainly Barents Sea – links to Svalbard and NE Greenland)
Paleogeography, Source-to-sink (regional Arctic context)
Implications for Barents Sea petroleum systems – exploration risks

Kim Senger

Associate Professor, WP2 Leader

UNIS The University Centre in Svalbard

kim.senger@unis.no

+47 79 02 64 53 / +47 952 91 592

Sten-Andreas Grundvåg

Associate Professor, WP2 Leader, Co-centre leader

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

sten-andreas.grundvag@uit.no

+47 776 23293

Jan Sverre Laberg

Professor, WP5 leader

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

jan.laberg@uit.no

+47 776 44456

Jan Inge Faleide

Professor, WP1 Leader

University of Oslo

j.i.faleide@geo.uio.no

+47 22856677

Ivar Midtkandal

Associate Professor

University of Oslo

ivar.midtkandal@geo.uio.no

+47 22854011

Snorre Olaussen

Professor

UNIS The University Centre in Svalbard

snorre.olaussen@unis.no

+47 79 02 33 49

Atle Rotevatn

Professor

University of Bergen

Atle.Rotevatn@uib.no

+47 55 58 33 90 / +47 481 09 959

Steffen Bergh

Professor

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

steffen.bergh@uit.no

+47 77644464 / +47 91329113

Sebastien Gac

Researcher

University of Oslo

sebastien.gac@geo.uio.no

Roy Helge Gabrielsen

Professor em.

University of Oslo

r.h.gabrielsen@geo.uio.no

+47-22856600

Alvar Braathen

Professor

University of Oslo

alvar.braathen@geo.uio.no

+47-22856664

Morgan Ganerød

Researcher

NGU The Geological Survey of Norway

Morgan.ganerod@ngu.no

Atle Mørk

Professor

NTNU

atle.mork@ntnu.no

Stig-Morten Knutsen

Adjunct Professor

UiT The Arctic University of Norway / Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

Stig-Morten.Knutsen@npd.no

Sverre Planke

Adjunct Professor

Volcanic Basin Petroleum Reserach/Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics

planke@vbpr.no

Øyvind Hammer

Professor

Natural History Museum, UiO

oyvind.hammer@nhm.uio.no

Eric Salomon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Bergen

Eric.Salomon@uib.no

Project title: "Structure and fluid flow evolution of basin bounding fault systems in rift basins”

Supervisor(s): Atle Rotevatn, UiB

2017-2019

Mohamed Mansour Abdelmalak

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of Oslo

m.m.abdelmalak@geo.uio.no

Project title: "North Atlantic-Arctic tectonics related to the wider Barents Sea paleogeography and basin evolution"

Supervisors: Jan Inge Faleide (UiO), Sverre Planke (UiO & VBPR)

2019-2021

Jean-Baptiste Koehl

PhD Fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

jean-baptiste.koehl@uit.no

+47 776 46 104

Project title: “Onshore-offshore fault correlation of SW BS, Troms and Finnmark”

Supervisor(s): Steffen Bergh, UiT and Jan Inge Faleide, UiO

Period: 2015-2018

Fredrik Wesenlund

PhD Fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

fredrik.wesenlund@uit.no

+47 776 44556

Project title: “Sedimentology and geochemistry of Triassic source rocks in the Barents Sea”

Supervisor(s): Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, UiT; Jon Halvard Pedersen, Lundin; Jon Erik Skeie, Aker BP; Olaf Thiessen, Statoil

Period: 2017-2021

Thomas Birchall

PhD Fellow

UNIS The University Centre in Svalbard

Thomas.Birchall@UNIS.no

+47 79 02 33 60

Project title: “Geological controls on pore pressure in exhumed basins”

Supervisor(s): Kim Senger, UNIS; Jan Robert Eide, Statoil

Period: 2017-2020

Victoria Sjøholt Engelschiøn

PhD Fellow

Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

v.s.engelschion@nhm.uio.no

Project title: "Biofacies of the Middle Triassic dysoxic succession in the Arctic"

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Øyvind Hammer, Co-supervisors: Professor Atle Mørk and Professor Jørn Hurum (UiO)

Period: 2018-2021

Renate Strugstad Paulsen

PhD Fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

renate.s.paulsen@uit.no

Project title: "Trap and Seal analysis of the northern Barents Shelf"

Supervisors: Associate Professor Sten-Andreas Grundvåg (UiT), Kim Senger (UNIS)

Period: 2018-2021

Andreas Hallberg Hagset

PhD Fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

andreas.h.hagset@uit.no

Project title: "Organic geochemical assessment and mapping of potential oil-prone Lower Cretaceous source rocks in the Vøring and Western Barents Sea Basins, Norway"

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Sten-Andreas Grundvåg (UiT). Co-supervisors: Atle Rotevatn (UiB), Roy Davies (DEA) and Balazs Badics (DEA)

Period: 2018-2021

Amando Lasabuda

PhD Fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

amando.lasabuda@uit.no

Project title: “The Cenozoic tectono-sedimentary development and erosion estimates for the Barents Sea continental margin, Norwegian Arctic”

Supervisor(s): Jan Sverre Laberg, UiT; Stig-Morten Knutsen, NPD

Period: 2015-2018

Muhammad Hassaan

PhD Fellow

University of Oslo

muhammad.hassaan@geo.uio.no

Project title: "Integrated basin analysis and numerical modeling of the Central and Western Barents Sea"

Supervisor(s): Prof. Jan Inge Faleide, UiO/UiT; Prof. Roy H. Gabrielsen, UiO; Prof. II Filippos Tsikalas, Eni Norge/UiO

Period: 2018-2021

Malte Jochmann

Associated PhD fellow

UNIS The University Centre in Svalbard

malte.jochmann@unis.no

Project title: "The regional geometry and sedimentology of the lower Paleogene basin in Svalbard and North East Greenland"

Supervisor(s): Maria Jensen, UNIS; Snorre Olaussen, UNIS and William Helland-Hansen, UiB

Period: 2015-2020

Sigrun Kvendbø Hegstad

Associated PhD fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

sigrun.k.hegstad@uit.no

Project title: Geochemically enhanced correlation of Triassic successions in the Barents Sea area and implications for sediment provenance and palaeo-environmental reconstructions

Supervisor(s): Matthias Forwick and Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, UiT; Juha Ahokas, Aker BP

Period: 2017-2020