The North Sea Graben of northwestern Europe, World Energy Project
Province 4025, is entirely offshore within the territorial waters
of Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United
Kingdom. Extensional tectonics and failed rifting are fundamental
to the distribution of oil and gas in the province. Accordingly,
the geologic history and reservoir rocks of the province are
considered in the context of their temporal relationship to the
principal extension and rifting events. The oil and gas
accumulations of the province are considered part of a single
petroleum system: the Kimmeridgian Shales Total Petroleum System
(TPS). Source rocks of the Kimmeridgian Shales TPS were deposited
in Late Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous time during the period of
intensive extension and rifting. The Kimmeridgian Shales contain
typical "type II" mixed kerogen. Oil and gas generation began
locally in the North Sea Graben Province by Cretaceous time and has
continued in various places ever since.
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