Laura-Jane Fyfe

• PhD
• Geologist at BP

The Larne and Portpatrick basins, located in the North Channel between southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland, have been the target of a small programme of petroleum exploration activities since 1971. A total of five hydrocarbon exploration wells have been drilled within the two basins, though as of yet no commercial discoveries have been made. Th...

The Little Minch Sill Complex is comprised of a series of stacked, multi-leaved Paleocene aged dolerite sills, which have been primarily intruded into Mesozoic sedimentary rocks and Paleocene tuffs/?hyaloclastites within the Sea of Hebrides Basin, situated on the NE Atlantic margin. Two previously proposed models for the emplacement of the sill com...

The Upper Permian Zechstein Supergroup has the potential to play an important role in the UK's future energy production and energy transition. However the Supergroup is comparatively poorly understood in the UK, particularly the link between the onshore and offshore geology. In this paper we re-evaluate available data in order to present a consiste...

As the United Kingdom reduces its CO2 emissions in order to meet its 2050 net zero greenhouse gas targets, there will be a significant evolution of the UK's energy mix. The reliance on hydrocarbons will decrease while there is predicted to be an increase in low carbon energy sources such as renewables and nuclear. In order to decarbonise and achiev...

The Anglo-Polish Super Basin forms an important petroleum province that stretches across northwestern Europe. It contains many giant gas fields, primarily located beneath a thick upper Permian (Zechstein Group) evaporite canopy and a smaller amount of oil and gas in Mesozoic reservoirs in the suprasalt section. Although exploration activity continu...

The Vale of Pickering (VoP) in North Yorkshire has played host to several small gas discoveries that have come to the end of their production life. Now that the fields have ceased production, there is an opportunity to repurpose them and their infrastructure for the energy transition. Using an extensive, well-constrained seismic dataset, mapping of...

Offshore to the west of the Scottish mainland resides a series of Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic rift basins, which have been the target of small-scale petroleum exploration from 1968 to the present day. The series of 14 basins, which run from the Minch Basin, offshore northwest Scotland to the Portpatrick Basin, located between southwest Scotland and...

The Sea of Hebrides Basin and Minch Basin are late Palaeozoic-Mesozoic rift basins located to the northwest of the Scottish mainland. The basins were the target of small-scale petroleum exploration from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, with a total of three wells drilled within the two basins between 1989 and 1991. Although no commercially viable...

Within the petroleum industry aeolian reservoirs have historically been regarded as homogeneous, isotropic, highly permeable ‘tanks’ of sandstone, with high recovery factors and production rates. Variable production and recovery from mature fields suggests this is an over-simplification. This project aims to challenge this simplistic view of aeolia...