A stratigraphic study of the Palaeogene sediments in the Danish North Sea sector, east of the Central Trough

Potential prospects have also been identified in sandstone bodies of Eocene and Oligocene age. The present project aims at improving the existing knowledge about exploration options in the Paleogene succession through a geological study of the Paleogene sediments east of the Central Graben, with focus on the construction of a new, robust lithostratigraphic framework supported by a detailed biostratigraphy. Basic tools in the project are biostratigraphy (palynology and micropalaeontology, with emphasis on the former), palaeoenvironmental interpretation, petrophysical log interpretation, and seismic interpretation. The biostratigraphic framework will be based on existing well data, but will also involve processing of new sample material, and will incorporate new data from wells to be drilled in the area in the near future. The biostratigraphic results will be continuously integrated with the results from well log interpretation and with seismic data. In the last phase of the project, the results will be used to establish a new lithostratigraphic subdivision of the Paleogene succession, supplemented by a detailed model of the depositional settting