The North Brae and Beinn Fields, Block 16/7a, UK North Sea

Abstract

AbstractNorth Brae is located in Block 16/07a, and was discovered in 1975 by Pan Ocean Oil Company. The field was purchased by Marathon Oil Company in 1976 and was delineated in the early 1980s. Production by gas recycling was commenced in 1988. Liquid reserves are estimated at 207 MMBBLs with recoverable dry gas of 800 BCF.The North Brae Field is one of three gas/condensate fields in the Brae fields area of the South Viking Graben in the UK Sector of the North Sea. The reservoir is part of a large turbidite and debris flow, submarine fan system that also encompasses the East Brae and Kingfisher fields to the northeast of North Brae. North Brae is located at the proximal end of this fan system, and channelized massive conglomerates and sandstones characterize its reservoirs. The stratigraphy of the fan system was influenced by highly variable changes in relative sea level that controlled sediment input. Structural activity was also important, such as syn-sedimentary normal faulting related to the subsidence of the South Viking Graben, and structural inversion, in a series of regional compressive episodes commencing in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.