Talk:Brent oilfield

Suggestions

Here's a few suggestions to incorporate in to the main page on Brent. I'll add them in if no-one objects (and I learn how to edit pages properly):

Brent is a Group and not a formation. The five main units of the Brent Group are now Formations in their own right. See, for example, Morton, A.C., et al. (eds.), 1992, Geology of the Brent Group, Geological Society Special Publication No. 61. And the article therein, Richards, P.C., 1992, An introduction to the Brent Group: a literature review, pp. 15 - 26.

The Brent Group is of Middle Jurassic age (mostly Bajocian with the Tarbert Formation, the youngest in the Group, of probable Bathonian age). See for example Mitchener, B.C., et al., 1992, Brent Group: sequence stratigraphy and regional implications, in Morton, A.C., et al., 1992, pp. 45 - 80.

Also worthy perhaps of mention is the separate large reservoir underneath the Brent Group where oil and gas are present in the Statfjord Group sandstones of latest Triassic age.

The seal to the Brent Group is really the Heather Formation (of Callovian age), rather than the Kimmeridge Clay. The Kimmeridge then lies unconformably on top of the Heather Formation.

The Brent Group was discovered with well 211/29-1 and then subdivided lithostratigraphically into the five Formations afterwards, so these are named directly after the five letters of Brent. It's not a coincidence... They are all Scottish Lochs too, by the way, not just features.

Also worth mentioning that Brent is (or was) one of the UK's largest oil fields and one of the largest gas fields too? I'll dig out some more references to tabulate this.

I would also suggest changing the name of the page to Brent_field (to be similar to many other wikipedia pages) but also to be more accurate - Brent is really an oil and gas field.

More technical stuff later if needed.

(I am a geologist, in case you can't tell, and used to work for Shell, although not much on Brent Field itself)

Fluffysbro (talk) 10:08, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Someone who doesn't know their Scottish Geography, had turned the "lochs" back into "features" ; I've turned it back to "lakes", because Fluffysbro above is correct. I am a geologist too, and have done dozens of wells in the Brent formation and more than a couple for Shell on the Brent field itself (Alpha and Delta). I was here while updating my CV, and I'd forgotten the quad/block code for the Brent. And I forgot to sign my edit. Logged in now though. Aidan Karley (talk) 15:22, 16 June 2013 (UTC)