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The Norwegian Petroleum Society is pleased to announce a three day conference on the sequence stratigraphy of the Norwegian Margin to be held in Stavanger in May 2010. This meeting follows on from previous successful NPF events on this subject, building further on advances in our understanding of the role of climate and tectonics in controlling sediment delivery from source to sink, and its impact on stratigraphic architecture and petroleum exploration offshore Norway.

The Norwegian Continental margin stretches for c. 2500 km from the North Sea in the south to the Barents Sea in the north and includes hydrocarbon plays ranging from Devonian to Pleistocene in age.  Reservoir types vary from alluvial fans to deepwater fans , in almost every climate type from arid through humid to glacial, in  tectonic settings ranging from intra-montane through compressional/transpressional to extensional/ transtensional basins, and passive margins. The Norwegian margin has it all, with a huge remaining potential and a high quality database of seismic and well log information available.

This range of depositional systems and tectonic settings provides an exciting challenge for petroleum geologists trying to understand and predict stratigraphy and lithological properties. The initial focus of sequence stratigraphy on eustasy as the key control on depositional architecture has evolved to encompass tectonic, climatic and geomorphologic controls on sediment delivery and preserved stratal architecture. The development of this understanding and it’s impact on our understanding of the Norwegian Continental shelf is the focus of this meeting. Special attention will be given to the integration of both analogue studies and processed based models with the insights gained from the interpretation and visualization of high quality subsurface case studies.