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
Stine Bjordal Olsen
Associated PhD fellow
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
stine.b.olsen@uit.no
Project title: «A tectonostratigraphic model for the Cenozoic evolution of the northern Mid-Norwegian and the Lofoten-Vesterålen continental margin»
Supervisor(s): Tom Arne Rydningen (UiT), Jan Sverre Laberg (UiT), Amando Lasabuda (UiT), Stig-Morten Knutsen (NPD)
Period: 2019-2023