Professor NICK SCHOFIELD
Personal Chair
- 51cg
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- Email Address
- n.schofield@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272096
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences


Biography
Nick Schofield is a Professor of Igneous and Petroleum Geology. He specializes in the seismic and field interpretation of intrusive and extrusive sequences in volcanic terranes and their interaction with hydrocarbon systems.
He is a multi-award winning scientist at the forefront of aiding industry in understanding challenging volcanic geology in the subsurface globally. External roles include sitting on the UK-IODP program advisory group (PAG).
Nick is presently on 80% secondment via the 51cg to Pulsar Helium () where he is acting as Chief Geologist.
- Research
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Research Overview
- Geology and Petroleum Geology West of Shetland
- Geology of NE Atlantic Margin
- Seismic Interpretation of Volcanics
- Petroleum Geology
- Evolution of Sedimentary Basins affected by Volcanism
- Sill Complexes
- Intra-Lava hydrocarbon plays (e.g. Rosebank)
- Lava field stratigraphy
- North Atlantic Igneous Province
- South Australian Volcanism
- Salt-Igneous interaction
- Publications
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The Past, Present and Future of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production West of Shetland (WoS)
Powering the Energy Transition through Subsurface Collaboration: Proceedings of the 1st Energy Geoscience Conference. Gill, C., Goffey, G., Underhill, J. (eds.). Geological Society of LondonChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI:
Impacts of Pre-Existing Structural Fabrics on Fault Growth and Evolution During Multi-Phase Rifting: Case Study From the Central Browse Basin, North West Shelf of Australia
Basin Research, vol. 37, no. 4, e70049Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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The tectonostratigraphic evolution of a Miocene half-graben, Kerio Valley Basin, East African Rift of Kenya: analysis of a 3 km thick volcano-sedimentary succession
Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 182, no. 3, jgs2023-185Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Emplacement and Landscape Controls on Ancient Submarine Volcanism: 3D Seismic Geomorphological Analysis of Cretaceous Volcanic Activity in the Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 182, no. 2, jgs2024-084Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Quantifying Virtual Field Trip Efficiency
PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science , vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 679–690Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Corrigendum to ‘The Derim Derim Dolerite, greater McArthur Basin, Australia: Using subsurface data to characterise a Mesoproterozoic magma plumbing system’ [Mar. Petrol. Geol., 169 (2024)] (Marine and Petroleum Geology (2024) 169, (S0264817224003842), (10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107072))
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 169, 107099Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Look-ahead-while-drilling resistivity tools and their role in drilling sedimentary basins containing complex volcanic geology
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 30, no. 3, petgeo2024-012Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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3D seismic analysis of complex faulting patterns and fluid escape features and their relation to Late Cenozoic Magmatism in the Bass Basin, offshore SE Australia
Geological Society Special Publication: The Impacts of Igneous Systems on Sedimentary Basins and their Energy Resources. 1 edition. Geological Society of London, pp. 183-205, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Assessing the application of ultradeep azimuthal electromagnetic resistivity tools in detecting igneous formations ahead of the transmitter
The Impacts of Igneous Systems on Sedimentary Basins and their Energy Resources. 1 edition. Geological Society of London, pp. 415-424, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Petrophysical characteristics of igneous rocks in the Outboard Browse Basin, North West Shelf of Australia: implications for predicting igneous sequences prior to exploration drilling
Geological Society Special Publication, vol. 547, no. 1, pp. 335-356Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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