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Opening-up Fractured Basement Petroleum Reservoirs

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Submitting institution
University of Durham
Unit of assessment
7 - Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
Summary impact type
Technological
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Is this case study continued from a case study submitted in 2014?
Yes
Underpinning research subjects
  • Geology
  • Geophysics
  • Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience

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Grant funding

Grant number Value of grant
NER/T/S/2000/01018 £237,000
NE/C506964/1 £87,000
Countries
  • United Kingdom
Formal partners
  • Hurricane Energy
  • Clair Joint Venture (BP, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips)
  • Geospatial Research Ltd
  • Spark Petroleum.
Funding programmes
  • NERC OML project: ‘Quantifying fault zone evolution and basement reactivation in passive margins.’ (NER/T/S/2000/01018)
  • NERC Follow-on Fund: ‘The commercialisation of GAVA - Geospatial Acquisition, Visualisation and Analysis: a new tool for field-based scientists’. (NE/C506964/1)
  • Royal Society Industrial Fellowship to McCaffrey
  • BP postdoc to Wilson
  • NERC CASE PhDs (Watts, Moy, Ashby)
  • Statoil funded PhD student, Faroes fracture systems (Holdsworth, Imber)
  • ITF JIP ‘FRE3DA’ (Shell, BG, DTI)
  • Statoil postdoc (Walker): Fractures in Basalts
  • NStar Proof of Concept Funding (to GRL)
  • NERC KE Fellowship to Holdsworth: ‘Development of opportunities for co-financed research with industry, and Knowledge Networks/Clubs within area of hazard and Risk, and Energy.’ 1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sep 2012.
  • Clair JVG PhDs (Pless, Franklin, Dichiarante)
  • Clair JVG Re-Os dating study (Selby, Holdsworth)
  • Clair JVG Ridge study (Holdsworth, McCaffrey)
  • Hurricane Exploration: S Rona Ridge study
Global research identifiers
  • grid.1236.6
  • grid.419549.4
  • grid.101992.2
  • grid.505629.d
Name of funders
  • British Petroleum (UK)
  • Shell (UK)
  • BG Group (UK)
  • Statoil UK (now Equinor UK)
  • NERC
  • Industry Technology Facilitator (now merged with Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC)))
Researcher ORCIDs
  • 0000-0002-3467-835X
  • 0000-0002-9882-1709