Offshore staff
OSLO, Norway – The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has published high resolution core images of 94 shallow wellbores drilled in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea.
Geologist Jasminka Mujezinovic said: “Stratigraphy… is the framework for both geological age, stratification and how sediments are deposited.”
IKU, the Norwegian Continental Shelf Institute, conducted the borehole surveys between 1982 and 1993, with industry support.
The cores cover a total area of over 6.6 km (4.1 mi), with deepest nearly 600 m (1,968 ft) beneath the seabed. In 2013 the NPD took over the core material and currently stores it in Trondheim on the central Norwegian west coast.
Rocks surveyed range from the Ordovician to the Late Cenozoic (around 400 million years).
“Digitalization of various types of data – also geological – is becoming increasingly important,” said Mujezinovic. “Sharing with the broader community is…one of the basic pillars in the resource management exercised by the NPD.”
04/28/2020
