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Geological Society, London, Memoirs; 2003; v. 20; p. 691-698;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2003.020.01.55
© 2003 Geological Society of London

Part 7: Southern North Sea Gas Fields

The Clipper Field, Blocks 48/19a, 48/19c, UK North Sea

M. J. Sarginson

Shell Expro, PO Box 4 Lothing Depot, North Quay, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR32 2TH, UK, Present address: Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Sdn. Bhd. Seria KB3534, Negara Brunei, Darussalam

The Clipper Gas Field is a moderate-sized faulted anticlinal trap located in Blocks 48/19a, 48/19c and 48/20a within the Sole Pit area of the southern North Sea Gas Basin. The reservoir is formed by the Lower Permian Leman Sandstone Formation, lying between truncated Westphalian Coal Measures and the Upper Permian evaporitic Zechstein Group which form source and seal respectively. Reservoir permeability is very low, mainly as a result of compaction and diagenesis which accompanied deep burial of the Sole Pit Trough, a sub basin within the main gas basin. The Leman Sandstone Formation is on average about 715 ft thick, laterally heterogeneous and zoned vertically with the best reservoir properties located in the middle of the formation. Porosity is fair with a field average of 11.1%. Matrix permeability, however, is less than one millidarcy on average. Well productivity depends on intersecting open natural fractures or permeable streaks within aeolian dune slipface sandstones. Field development started in 1988. 24 development wells have been drilled to date. Expected recoverable reserves are 753 BCF.