oa The Whitehouse Shore – A Natural Laboratory for Characterizing Fault Geometry, Heterogeneity and Permeability

The Whitehouse shore intertidal exposure (Scotland) provides an excellent field site to study small scale faults in sand-shale sequences. Especially interesting is the presence of paleo fluid flow indicators, which allow us to constrain the fluid flow behaviour of the faults and fractures at depth. Combination of field study, laboratory analysis and numerical modelling allows us to collect vast amounts of data on the geometry, heterogeneity and permeability structure of fault zones. These data will ultimately form the basis of a new workflow that allows the spatial variability of fault zones to be represented in reservoir models.