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BRETAN, YIELDING & SVERDRUP
A knowledge database of hanging-wall traps that are dependent on fault-rock seal. Geological
Society, London, Special Publications, 496(1), 209-222.
Abstract
KAROLYTE, JOHNSON, YIELDING & GILFILLAN
Fault seal modelling – the influence of fluid properties on fault sealing capacity in hydrocarbon
and CO2 systems.
Abstract
GOMEZ-ROMEU, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & MANATSCHAL
Measurements of the extension required for crustal breakup on the magma-poor Iberia-Newfoundland
conjugate margins.
Abstract
ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, YIELDING & BEELEY
Mapping the bathymetric evolution of the Northern North Sea: from Jurassic synrift archipelago
through Cretaceous–Tertiary post-rift subsidence.
Full Article
EDMUNDSON, ROTEVATN, DAVIES, YIELDING, & BROBERG
Key controls on hydrocarbon retention and leakage from structural traps in the Hammerfest Basin, SW
Barents Sea: implications for prospect analysis and risk assessment.
Abstract
ALVEY, ROBERTS & KUSZNIR
What is the thickness of Earth’s crust? Geoscientist
Full
Article
KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & ALVEY
Crustal structure of the conjugate Equatorial Atlantic Margins, derived by gravity anomaly
inversion. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 476.
Full
Article
Supplementary Material
ROBERTS, ALVEY & KUSZNIR
Crustal structure and heat-flow history in the UK Rockall Basin, derived from backstripping and
gravity-inversion analysis. Petroleum Geoscience.
Full
Article
STEINBERG, ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, SCHAFER & KARCZ
Crustal structure and post-rift evolution of the Levant Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology.
Abstract
COOKE, FISHER, MICHIE & YIELDING
Investigating the controls on fault rock distribution in normal faulted shallow burial limestones,
Malta, and the implications for fluid flow. Journal of Structural Geology.
Abstract
CLARKE, IMBER, DAVIES, HUNEN, DANIELS & YIELDING
Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted
gas reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience.
Abstract
MICHIE, YIELDING & FISHER
Predicting transmissibilities of carbonate-hosted fault zones. Geological Society, London, Special
Publications, 459.
Abstract
BOULT, FREEMAN & YIELDING
Structural interpretation of seismic geologic reality, perspective, and 3-D thinking, in B. Krantz,
C. Ormand, and B. Freeman, eds., 3-D structural interpretation: Earth, mind,and machine: AAPG Memoir
111, p. 75–89.
Abstract
BRETAN
Trap Analysis: an automated approach for deriving column height predictions in fault-bounded traps.
Petroleum Geoscience.
Abstract
HAINES, MICHIE, NEILSON & HEALY
Permeability Evolution Across Carbonate Hosted Normal Fault Zones. Marine and Petroleum Geology,
Vol. 72, 62-82.
Abstract
LAPADAT, IMBER, YIELDING, IACOPINI, MCCAFFREY, LONG & JONES
Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous
sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK. Geological Society, London, Special
Publications, 439.
Abstract
MICHIE & HAINES
Variability and Heterogeneity of the Petrophysical Properties of Extensional Carbonate Fault Rocks,
Malta. Petroleum Geoscience. First published online February 19, 2016, doi: 10.1144/petgeo2015-027.
Abstract
YIELDING & FREEMAN
3-D seismic-structural workflows - Examples using the Hat Creek fault system, in B. Krantz, C.
Ormand, and B. Freeman, eds., 3-D structural interpretation: Earth, mind, and machine:AAPG Memoir
111, p. 155–171.
Abstract
YIELDING
The geometry of branch lines. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439.
Abstract
FREEMAN, QUINN, DILLON, ARNHILD & JAARSMA
Predicting subseismic fracture density and orientation in the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea.
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 421.
Abstract
MICHIE
Influence of host lithofacies on fault rock variation in carbonate fault
zones: A case study from the Island of Malta. J. Struct. Geol. 76, 61-79
Abstract
MORLEY & ALVEY,
Is spreading prolong, episodic or incipient in the Andaman Sea? Evidence from Deepwater
Sedimentation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 98, 446-456.
Abstract
YIELDING
Trapping of buoyant fluids in fault-bound structures. Geological Society, London, Special
Publications, 421.
Abstract
WHIPP, JACKSON, GAWTHORPE, DREYER
& QUINN.
Normal fault array evolution above a reactivated rift fabric; a subsurface example from the northern
Horda Platform, Norwegian North Sea. Basin Research. 26, Issue 4, 523-549.
Abstract
MICHIE, HAINES, HEALY, NEILSON,
TIMMS & WIBBERLEY.
Influence of carbonate facies on fault zone architecture. J. Struct. Geol. 65, 82-99
Abstract
HEALY, NEILSON, HAINES, MICHIE,
TIMMS & WILSON.
An investigation of porosity-velocity relationships in faulted carbonates using outcrop analogues.
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 406
Abstract
FLETCHER, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS &
HUNSDALE.
The formation of a failed contintental breakup basin: The Cenozoic development of the Faroe-Shetland
Basin. Basin Research. 25, 1-22
Abstract
YIELDING
Using probabilistic shale smear modelling to relate SGR predictions of column height to fault-zone
heterogeneity. Petroleum Geoscience. 18, 33-42
Abstract
BRETAN, YIELDING, MATHIASSEN & THORSNES.
Fault-seal analysis for CO2 storage: an example from the Troll area, Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Petroleum Geoscience. 17, 181-192
Abstract
YIELDING, LYKAKIS & UNDERHILL.
The role of stratigraphic juxtaposition for seal integrity in proven CO2 fault-bound traps of the
Southern North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience. 17, 193-203
Abstract
FREEMAN, BOULT, YIELDING & MENPES.
Using empirical geological rules to reduce structural uncertainty in seismic interpretation of
faults. J. Struct. Geol. 32, 1668-1676
Abstract
SCOTCHMAN, GILCHRIST, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & FLETCHER.
The breakup of the South Atlantic Ocean: formation of failed spreading axes and blocks of thinned
continental crust in the Santos Basin, Brazil and its consequence for petroleum system development.
In: Petroleum Geology Conference Series 2010, vol. 7 855-866
Abstract
YIELDING, BRETAN & FREEMAN.
Fault Seal Calibration: a brief review In: Geological Society Special Publication, 347,
243-255
Abstract
GREEN, ABDULLAYEV, HOSSACK, RILEY & ROBERTS.
Sedimentation and subsidence in the South Caspian Basin, Azerbaijan In: Geological Society Special
Publication, 312, 241-260.
Abstract
ROBERTS, CORFIELD, KUSZNIR, MATTHEWS, HANSEN & HOOPER
Mapping palaeostructure and palaeobathymetry along the Norwegian Atlantic continental margin: More
and Voring Basin; In: Petroleum Geoscience, vol 15, 27-43
Abstract
MANZOCCHI, ET AL.
Sensitivity of the impact of geological uncertainty on production from faulted and unfaulted
shallow-marine oil reservoirs: objectives and methods In: Petroleum Geoscience, vol 14, 3-15.
Abstract
WIBBERLEY, YIELDING & DI TORO
Recent advances in the understanding of fault zone internal structure: a review In: Geological
Society Special Publication, 299, 5-33.
Abstract
BOULT & FREEMAN
Using faults as an aid to horizon mapping in areas of poor 2D seismic: Otway Basin example. MESA
Journal, 46, 23-28
DEE, YIELDING, FREEMAN, HEALY, KUSZNIR, GRANT & ELLIS
Elastic dislocation modelling for fracture prediction of small-scale fault and fracture network
characteristics. In: Fractured Reservoirs, Geological Society Special Publication, 270,
135-151
Abstract
DEE, YIELDING, FREEMAN & BRETAN
A comparison between deterministic and stochastic fault seal techniques. In: Structurally Complex
Reservoirs, Geological Society Special Publication, 292, 259-270.
Abstract
PARKIN, LUNNON, WHITE, CHRISTIE & iSIMM TEAM.
Imaging the pulsing Iceland mantle plume through the Eocene. In: Geology, January 2007, v35,
93-96.
Abstract
SCOTCHMAN, MARAIS-GILCHRIST, GOMES de SOUZA, FONSECA CHAVES, ATTERTON, ROBERTS &
KUSZNIR.
A Failed Sea-Floor Spreading Centre, Santos Basin, Brazil. In: Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference
2006 Annals.
BRETAN & YIELDING.
Using buoyancy pressure profiles to evaluate uncertainty in fault-seal calibration. In: Evaluating
fault and cap rock seals: AAPG Hedberg Series No. 2, 151-162
Abstract
DEE, FREEMAN, YIELDING, ROBERTS & BRETAN.
Best practice in structural geological analysis. First Break, 23, 49-54.
Abstract
KUSZNIR, HUNSDALE, ROBERTS & iSIMM Team.
Timing and Magnitude of Depth-dependent Lithosphere Stretching on the S. Lofoten and N.
Vøring Continental Margins Offshore Mid-Norway: Implications for Subsidence and Hydrocarbon
Maturation at Volcanic Rifted Margins. In: Petroleum Geology: North West Eurpole & Global
Perspectives. Proc. 6th Petroleum Geology Conference, 767-783
Abstract
HEALY, YIELDING & KUSZNIR.
Fracture prediction for the 1980 El Asnam, Algeria earthquake via elastic dislocation modelling.
Tectonics, 23, TC6005
Abstract
HEALY, KUSZNIR & YIELDING.
An inverse method to derive fault slip and geometry from seismically observed vertical stratigraphic
displacements using elastic dislocation theory. Marine and Petroleum Geology 21, 923-932.
Abstract
KUSZNIR, HUNSDALE & ROBERTS.
Timing of depth-dependent lithosphere stretching on the South Lofoten rifted margin offshore
mid-Norway: pre-breakup or post-breakup? Basin Research 16, 279-296.
Abstract
BARNES, DEE & SANDERSON.
Characterisation of fracture networks using data from boreholes: an example from the concealed
Borrowdale Volcanic Group in west Cumbria, UK
Abstract
BRETAN, YIELDING & JONES.
Using calibrated shale gouge ratio to estimate hydrocarbon column heights. AAPG Bulletin, 87,
397-413.
Abstract
NICOL, WALSH, WATTERSON, NELL & BRETAN.
The geometry, growth and linkage of faults within a polygonal system from South Australia. Geol.
Soc. London Special Pub. 216, 245-261.
Abstract
BAILEY, MANZOCCHI, WALSH, KEOGH, HODGETTS, RIPPON, NELL, FLINT & STRAND.
The effect of faults on the 3D connectivity of reservoir bodies: a case study from the East Pennine
Coalfield, UK. Petroleum Geoscience, 8, 263-277.
Abstract
HARRIS, YIELDING, LEVINE, MAXWELL, ROSE & NELL.
Using Shale Gouge Ratio (SGR) to model faults as transmissibility barriers in reservoirs: an example
from the Strathspey Field, North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience, 8, 167-176.
Abstract
WHITE, CHRISTIE, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS, DAVIES, HURST, LUNNON, PARKIN, ROBERTS, SMITH, SURENDRA
& TYMMS.
iSIMM pushes frontiers of marine seismic acquisition. First Break, 20, 782-786
Abstract
YIELDING.
Shale Gouge Ratio - calibration by geohistory. In: Hydrocarbon Seal Quantification (eds, Koestler
& Hunsdale), NPF Special Pub, 11, 1-15.
Abstract
BADLEY.
Late Tertiary faulting, footwall uplift and topography in western Ireland. Geol Soc. Special Pub.
188, 201-207
Abstract
BAXTER, BUDDIN, CORCORAN & SMITH.
Structural modelling of the south Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: implications for the timing,
magnitude and style of crustal extension. Geol. Soc. Special Pub. 188, 275-290.
Abstract
WATTERSON, WALSH, NICOL, NELL & BRETAN.
Geometry and origin of a polygonal fault system. J. Geol. Soc. London, 157, 151-162.
Abstract
BERGER & ROBERTS.
The Zeta Structure; a footwall degradation complex formed by gravity sliding on the western margin
of the Tampen Spur, Northern North Sea. Pet. Geology Conference Series, 5, 107-116.
Abstract
MANZOCCHI, WALSH, NELL & YIELDING.
Fault transmissibility multipliers for flow simulation models. Petroleum Geoscience 5, 53-63.
Abstract
ROBERTS & HOLDSWORTH.
Linking onshore and offshore structures: Mesozoic extension in the Scottish highlands. J. Geol. Soc.
London, 156, 1061-1064.
Abstract
ROBERTS, LENG-SIANG-GOH, HOOPER, DE-JONG & VELTMEYER.
Quantitative analysis of structure and subsidence in the Nam Con Son Basin, offshore Vietnam:
differential stretching ahead of a propagating ocean?
Abstract
YIELDING, ØVERLAND & BYBERG.
Characterisation of fault zones for reservoir modeling: an example from the Gullfaks field, northern
North Sea. AAPG Bulletin, 83, 925-951.
Abstract
YIELDING, ØVERLAND & BYBERG.
Characterisation of fault zones in the Gullfaks field for reservoir modelling. Pet. Geology
Conference Series, 5. 1177-1185.
Abstract
FREEMAN, YIELDING, NEEDHAM & BADLEY.
Fault seal prediction : the Gouge Ratio method. Geol. Soc. Special Pub. 127, 19-25.
Abstract
ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, YIELDING & STYLES.
2D flexural backstripping of extensional basins: the need for a sideways glance. Petroleumn
Geoscience, 4, 327-338.
Abstract
FRISTAD, GROTH, YIELDING & FREEMAN.
Quantitative Fault Seal Prediction - a case study from Oseberg Syd. Norwegian Petroleum Society
Spec. Pub. 7, 107-124.
Abstract
HOLDSWORTH, BUTLER & ROBERTS.
The recognition of reactivation during continental deformation. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154,
73-78.
Abstract
NEEDHAM & MORGAN.
The East Irish Sea and adjacent basins - new faults or old?. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154,
145-150.
Abstract
ROBERTS, LUNDIN & KUSZNIR.
Subsidence of the Vøring Basin and the influence of the Atlantic Continental Margin. J. Geol.
Soc. London, 154, 551-557.
Abstract
YIELDING, FREEMAN & NEEDHAM.
Quantitative Fault Seal Prediction. AAPG Bulletin, 81, 897-917.
Abstract
BRETAN, NICOL, WALSH & WATTERSON.
Origin of some conjugate or 'X'-shaped fault structures. Leading Edge, July 1996,
812-816
Abstract
NEEDHAM, YIELDING & FOX.
Fault population description and prediction using examples from the offshore U.K. J. Structural
Geol. 18, 155-167.
Abstract
NEEDHAM, YIELDING & FREEMAN.
Analysis of fault geometry and displacement patterns. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 99,
189-199.
Abstract
YIELDING, NEEDHAM & JONES.
Sampling of fault populations using sub-surface data: a review. J. Structral Geol. 18,
135-146.
Abstract
KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & MORLEY.
Forward and Reverse Modelling of Rift Basin Formation. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 80,
33-56.
Abstract
ROBERTS, YIELDING, KUSZNIR, WALKER & DORN-LOPEZ.
Quantitative analysis of the Triassic extension in the northern Viking Graben. J. Geol. Society
London, 152, 15-26.
Abstract
ROBERTS & YIELDING.
Continental extensional tectonics. In: Continental Deformation, edited by P. Hancock, 223-250,
Pergamon Press, Oxford.
WALSH, WATTERSON & YIELDING.
Determination and interpretation of fault size populations: procedures and problems. In: North Sea
Oil and Gas Reservoirs III, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht,141-155.
Abstract
ROBERTS, YIELDING & BADLEY.
Tectonic and bathymetric controls on stratigraphic sequences within evolving half-graben. Geol. Soc.
London Special Publication 71, 87-121.
Abstract
ROBERTS, YIELDING, KUSZNIR, WALKER & DORN-LOPEZ.
Mesozoic extension in the North Sea: constraints from flexural backstripping, forward modelling and
fault populations. Petroleum Geology Conference series 4, 1123-1136.
Abstract
YIELDING, BADLEY & ROBERTS.
The structural evolution of the Brent Province. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 61,
27-43.
Abstract
YIELDING & ROBERTS.
Footwall uplift during normal faulting - implications for structural geometries in the North Sea.
NPF Special Publication 1, 289-304.
Abstract
YIELDING, WALSH & WATTERSON.
The prediction of small-scale faulting in reservoirs. First Break 10, 449-460.
Abstract
ROBERTS & YIELDING.
Deformation around basin-margin faults in the North Sea/mid-Norway rift. Geol. Soc. London Special
Publication 56, 61-78.
Abstract
WALSH, WATTERSON & YIELDING.
The importance of small-scale faulting in regional extension. Nature 351, 391-393.
Abstract
WHITE & YIELDING.
Calculating normal fault geometries at depth: theory and examples. Geol. Soc. London Special
Publication 56, 251-260.
Abstract
YIELDING, BADLEY & FREEMAN.
Seismic reflections from normal faults in the northern North Sea. Geol. Soc. London Special
Publication 56, 79-89.
Abstract
BADLEY, FREEMAN, ROBERTS, THATCHER, WALSH, WATTERSON & YIELDING.
Fault interpretation during seismic interpretation and reservoir evaluation. In: The interpretation
of geology, geophysics, petrophysics and petroleum engineering in reservoir delination, description
and management. Proceedings of 1st Archie Conference, Houston. AAPG, 224-241.
FREEMAN, YIELDING & BADLEY.
Fault correlation during seismic interpretation
Abstract
MARSDEN, YIELDING, ROBERTS & KUSZNIR.
Application of a flexural cantilever simple-shear/pure-shear model of continental lithosphere
extension to the formation of the northern North Sea basin
ROBERTS, BADLEY, PRICE & HUCK.
The structural history of a transtensional basin: Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland
Abstract
ROBERTS, PRICE & OLSEN.
Late Jurassic half-graben control on the siting and structure of hydrocarbon accumulations
UK/Norwegian Central Graben
Abstract
ROBERTS, YIELDING & BADLEY.
A kinematic model for the orthogonal opening of the late Jurassic North Sea rift system, Denmark-Mid
Norway
YIELDING.
Footwall uplift associated with Late Jurassic normal faulting in the northern North Sea
Abstract
BADLEY, PRICE & BACKSHALL.
Inversion, reactivated faults and related structures: seismic examples from the southern North
Sea
Abstract
ROBERTS.
Fold and thrust structures in the Kintradwell 'Boulder Beds', Moray Firth
Abstract
ROBERTS, PRICE & BADLEY.
Discussion on Triassic sediments of the Inner Moray Firth, Scotland: early rift deposits
Abstract
BADLEY, PRICE, RAMBECH-DAHL & AGDESTEIN.
The structural evolution of the northern Viking Graben and its bearing upon extensional modes of
basin formation
Abstract