Sand Injectites in Deep-Water Clastic Plays – Migration Paths, Intrusive Traps and Reservoir Characterisation

A025 SAND INJECTITES IN DEEP-WATER CLASTIC PLAYS: MIGRATION PATHS INTRUSIVE TRAPS AND RESERVOIR CHARACTERISATION Abstract 1 A. HURST *1 D. DURANTI 1 M. HUUSE 2 AND J. CARTWRIGHT 2 1 Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE UK (a.hurst@abdn.ac.uk d.duranti@abdn.ac.uk) 2 3DLab Department of Earth Ocean and Planetary Sciences Cardiff University Wales UK (m.huuse@earth.cf.ac.uk joe@ocean.cf.ac.uk) Sand injectites are increasingly commonly identified in association with deep-water clastic reservoirs. They modify the internal and external geometry of reservoir sandstones and sometime form commercially significant traps which may be classed as intrusive or extrusive traps. Sand injectites form