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 +===== Biostratigraphy; the Energy Transition and Other Applications =====
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 +The use of biostratigraphy in situations connected with the Energy Transition (or for other non-hydrocarbon applications) are, unsurprisingly, still in the early days and published examples are rare. However, it is important to realise one fundamental point…
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 +//**The principles of correlation, environmental determination and sequence prediction enabled by biostratigraphy and learned over a century of work in the hydrocarbon industry are equally and necessarily applicable in the Energy Transition.**//
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 +  * This means that screening basins for aquifers for CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage) purposes relies as much on biostratigraphy for correlation, paleoenvironmental determination and sequence prediction as it did when screening for source, reservoir and seal rocks.
 +  * This means drilling a borehole for CCUS, or perhaps even geothermal purposes, requires the same wellsite engineering/safety/geological control/biosteering functions as drilling a wildcat or general hydrocarbon production well. 
 +  * This means siting an offshore multi- wind turbine farm requires the mapping of recent and ancient environmental units to avoid unsuitable foundation strata in the same way that GDE maps help to establish play-fairways.
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 +[[et_examples | Some Examples]]
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 +[[et_stenille | CCUS in Denmark: The Stenlille Structure, a model for future CO2 Storage]]
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 +[[et_geothermal | Geothermal Energy and Biostratigraphy - examples from Denmark]]
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 +[[et_aquifers | Drinking Water and Biostratigraphy (Aquifers) - an example from Denmark]]
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 +[[et_engineering | Civil Engineering Projects - tunnels etc.]]
  
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 The use of biostratigraphy in the specific identification of sequence surfaces and components is relatively new although, in fact, biostratigraphers have been identifying such features in their data for a long time but not necessarily appreciating their sequence applications. Like many of the concepts for sequence stratigraphy itself, sequence biostratigraphy first became prominent in the Gulf of Mexico (Armentrout, 1993, 1996) but has since expanded into other areas such as the North Sea (Partington et al., 1993; Neal et al., 1994) and the Arabian Platform (Sharland et al., 2001; Simmons et al., 2007) and others. The use of biostratigraphy in the specific identification of sequence surfaces and components is relatively new although, in fact, biostratigraphers have been identifying such features in their data for a long time but not necessarily appreciating their sequence applications. Like many of the concepts for sequence stratigraphy itself, sequence biostratigraphy first became prominent in the Gulf of Mexico (Armentrout, 1993, 1996) but has since expanded into other areas such as the North Sea (Partington et al., 1993; Neal et al., 1994) and the Arabian Platform (Sharland et al., 2001; Simmons et al., 2007) and others.
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 +Sequence Biostratigraphy brings together more or less all the individual analytical and interpretive techniques covered in the course and builds it into a coherent, fully integrated synthesis of the depositional history of a basin.
  
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-===== Biostratigraphy and the Energy Transition ===== 
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-The use of biostratigraphy in situations connected with the Energy Transition are, unsurprisingly, still in the early days and published examples are rare. However, it is important to realise one fundamental point… 
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-//**The principles of correlation, environmental determination and sequence prediction enabled by biostratigraphy and learned over a century of work in the hydrocarbon industry are equally and necessarily applicable in the Energy Transition.**// 
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-  * This means that screening basins for aquifers for CCS purposes relies as much on biostratigraphy for correlation, paleoenvironmental determination and sequence prediction as it did when screening for source, reservoir and seal rocks. 
-  * This means drilling a borehole for CCS, or perhaps even geothermal purposes, requires the same wellsite engineering/safety/geological control/biosteering functions as drilling a wildcat or general hydrocarbon production well.  
-  * This means siting an offshore multi- wind turbine farm requires the mapping of recent and ancient environmental units to avoid unsuitable foundation strata in the same way that GDE maps help to establish play-fairways. 
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-[[et_examples | Some Examples]] 
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 ===== Sources ===== ===== Sources =====
  
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 ===== Copyright and Permissions ===== ===== Copyright and Permissions =====
-This Wiki site and the accompanying teaching materials are the property of the authors and may not be sold, copied, modified or distributed without permission of the authors. No material (included but not limited to: text, figures, tables, charts etc.) may be used in derived matter (publications, presentations, submissions etc.) without the permission of the authors. Notwithstanding the above, the authors are very keen to introduce, promote and expand the awareness and use of biostratigraphy in applied settings and are likely to look very favourably upon such requests. Please contact Mike Bidgood in the first instance (mike(at)gssgeoscience.co.uk).+This Wiki site and the accompanying teaching materials are the property of the authors and may not be sold, copied, modified or distributed without permission of the authors. No material (included but not limited to: text, figures, tables, charts etc.) may be used in derived matter (publications, presentations, submissions etc.) without the permission of the authors. Notwithstanding the above, the authors are very keen to introduce, promote and expand the awareness and use of biostratigraphy in applied settings and are likely to look very favourably upon such requests. Please contact Mike Bidgood in the first instance (mike(at)gssgeoscience[dot]co[dot]uk).
  
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