none 10.1144/petgeo2018-056 Geological Society of London Geological Society of London 1881 104251520 78679 2024111903341100527 10.1144 2024-11-19T09:03:20Z 2019-01-22T10:51:47Z 8 Petroleum Geoscience PG 1354-0793 2041-496X 02 06 2020 02 2020 26 1 Thomas B. Phillips Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6783-9092 Christopher A.-L. Jackson Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8592-9032 Rebecca E. Bell Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK Ayunda A. Valencia Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5807-4585 In many petroleum-bearing, data-poor ‘frontier’ basins, source, reservoir and seal distribution is poorly constrained, making it difficult to identify petroleum systems and play models. However, 3D seismic reflection data provide an opportunity to directly map the 3D distribution of key petroleum system elements, thereby supplementing typically sparse, 1D sedimentary facies information available from wells. Here, we examine the Farsund Basin, an underexplored basin offshore southern Norway. Despite lying in the mature North Sea Basin, the Farsund Basin contains only one well; meaning there remains a poor understanding of its hydrocarbon potential. This east-trending basin is anomalous to the north-trending basins present regionally, having experienced a different tectonic, and most likely geomorphological, evolution. We identify a series of east-flowing rivers in the Middle Jurassic, the distribution of which are controlled by salt-detached faults. In the Middle Jurassic, a series of carbonate reefs, expressed as subcircular amplitude anomalies, developed. Within the Upper Jurassic we identify numerous curvilinear features, which correspond to the downlap termination of southwards-prograding deltaic clinoforms. 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