Prospecting in the Palaeocene Deep Water Sandstones of the Norwegian North Sea

L-02 PROSPECTING IN THE PALAEOCENE DEEP WATER SANDSTONES OF THE NORWEGIAN NORTH SEA J. S. WILLOUGHBY A. VAN BOCKSTAELE J. KRISTENSEN and T. H. DALE Statoil Grenseveien 21 4035 Stavanger Norway 1 The Tertiary of the Norwegian North Sea is in its Renaissance period. It has been the focus of recent licence rounds and it is actively being explored. This paper will focus on the exploration of the deep-water fans of the Heimdal and Hermod Formations and will consider techniques used to define the presence of trap reservoir and hydrocarbons. It will include a review of the regional setting stratigraphic