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The Hoop Fault Complex in South Barents Sea is an area of interest for oil exploration on the Norwegian shelf. The Wisting oil discovery in 2013 proved the mid to early Jurassic Realgrunnen Subgroup play. The wells in the Hoop area targetting the Realgrunnen Subgroup are presently a few hundred meters below the sea floor, but have been buried at considerable deeper depths earlier. As the wells that have been targetted are driven by seismic amplitude anomalies, results show a better understanding of the underlying rock physics is needed. We combine relative simple rock physics modelling with mechanical and geochemical history of the reservoir to describe a complex burial history and outline the potential seismic signature. Such diagnostics may be important for future quantitative seismic interpretation of complex tectonic provinces.

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