A Classified Bibliography of Northwest European Continental Shelf Geology.

Abstract

Since our last selection of references pertaining to the deep geology of the North Sea (Brooks and Thomas 1974), a number of important conferences have been held, at which various aspects of the results of drilling for hydrocarbons in the North Sea and in the western areas of the shelf have been discussed. In addition, a number of other papers on aspects of offshore geology have been published by oil company geologists, academics and journalists. Not every published paper has been included, however, and we have again selected only those which, in our opinion, are of most immediate use. Nor have we included duplicated references to papers published twice: in such cases we have cited the most readily available one. At the end of 1975, 796 wells have been completed in the UK sector of the shelf, bringing the total of all offshore wells on the Northwest European Continental Shelf to about 1,105. The recent Petroleum and Submarine Pipelines Act allows the Department of Energy to release data concerning all offshore wells, and some onshore ones, 5 years after the Secretary of State has received the information. The Well Records Centre of the Department of energy is currently engaged in microfilming the downhole logs and completion reports of these wells, which will be placed on microfiche cards, and it is hoped that the first 100 wells, comprising approximately 10 cards per well, will be on sale through HMSO in the early summer of 1976. Further wells, it is hoped, will . . .