21CXRM: Palaeozoic Petroleum Systems Analysis for UK Offshore Regions

Reports, images, and GIS products describe the Palaeozoic geology and petroleum systems of UK offshore areas, including the Mid North Sea High and Irish Sea. The peer-reviewed products were produced by the British Geological Survey between November 2014 and May 2016 to stimulate exploration. The analysis integrated interpretations of well, seismic, gravity-magnetic, and source rock data with basin modelling.

Use Cases

• Regional basin modelling based on integrated well, seismic, and source rock data mentioned in the description
• Mapping Palaeozoic hydrocarbon play fairways based on GIS and gridded geological products
• Assessing exploration potential in underexplored Devonian and Carboniferous intervals described for specific offshore basins

Strengths

• Products are peer-reviewed and based on integration of multiple data types including seismic and well data
• Analysis covers multiple specific offshore regions including the Central North Sea and Moray Firth
• Designed for use at regional scales between 1:750,000 to 1:3,000,000

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Unreleased raw data and UK Government Seismic data from 2016 are excluded

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Collated and interpreted from released data, with interpretations of unreleased data included by agreement.

Time Range

Project conducted between November 2014 and May 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:34:53.799679; freshness should be verified

Geography

UK offshore areas, including Mid North Sea High, Central North Sea, Moray Firth, Orcadian Basin, and greater Irish Sea area