f A New, Upper Jurassic Play in the Norwegian Southern Viking Graben

Recent drilling in Norwegian Block 15/6 (see fig. 1 for block location) has shown that Middle Jurassic and Late Palaeocene reservoirs lack hydrocarbon charge, despite their position on the margins of an oil-generating local Late Jurassic basin on the eastern flank of the Viking Graben. The local Late Jurassic basin is informally called the Sleipner Basin (fig.2).