Mineral Resources Map for West Sussex
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70 80 905 00 000 10 20 30 40 50 55 60 HYDROCARBON WELLS OF WEST SUSSEX 5 00 40 A Rogate 1 J Washington 1 AIMS AND LIMITATIONS The purpose of the maps and associated reports in this series is to show the broad distribution of those HYDROCARBON PROSPECTIVITY SUMMARY Operator: Carless Status: Confidential mineral resources which may be of current or potential economic interest and to relate these to selected Drilled: 1985 Availability of BGS geological map sheets BRITISH K Ashington 1 nationally-recognised planning designations. The maps are intended to assist in the consideration and 0 20 km Total depth: 2146 m West Sussex is prospective for both oil and gas. Operator: conoco preparation of development plan policies in respect of mineral extraction and the protection of important Status: Plugged and abandoned with oil 18 wildcat wells have been drilled, resulting in Drilled: 1985/86 mineral resources against sterilisation. They bring together a wide range of information, much of which is GEOLOGICAL shows in the Kellaways Beds, Great 284 285 286 287 the discovery of one producing oil field at Total depth: 1723 m scattered and not always available in a convenient form. 50 Oolite limestone and Inferior Oolite Singleton. An oil field at Storrington is currently Status: Plugged and abandoned limestone SURVEY being developed. It is highly likely that further as a dry hole The maps have been produced by collation and interpretation of mineral resource data principally held by wells will be drilled and further discoveries are the British Geological Survey. Information on the extent of mineral planning permissions has been S B Chilgrove 1 possible. Approximately a third of the county is L Henfield 1 obtained form the relevant Mineral Planning Authority (MPA). Some of these permissions may have Operator: Carless 300 301 302 303 licensed for exploration or production as of 1 Drilled: 1987/1988 Operator: D’Arcy Exploration Co Ltd lapsed or expired. The status of individual areas can be ascertained from the appropriate MPA. Location October 1997. information on national planning designations has been obtained from the appropriate statutory body Status: Confidential Drilled: 1936/37 EXL 189-2 Total depth: 1562 m (Countryside Commission, English Nature and English Heritage). For further information the relevant body WEST SUSSEX West Sussex is not prospective for coalbed INDEPENDENT C Minsted 1 should be contacted. Status: Plugged and abandoned methane. Operatot: Carless EXL 291 as a dry hole INDEPENDENT Drilled: 1987 The mineral resource data presented are based on the best available information, but are not Total depth: 1853 m M Southwater 1 comprehensive and their quality is variable. The inferred boundaries shown are, therefore, approximate. A Summary of Mineral Resource Information Q Status: Plugged and abandoned with oil Operator: Conoco Mineral resources defined on the map delineate areas within which potentially workable minerals may R shows in the Great Oolite limestone Drilled: 1986 occur. These areas are not of uniform potential and also take no account of planning constraints that may Total depth: 2342 m limit their working. The economic potential of specific sites can only be proved by a detailed evaluation WEST SUSSEX D Singleton 1 EXL 189-3 Status: Plugged and abandoned programme. Such an investigation is a essential precursor to submitting a planning application for mineral for Development Plans INDEPENDENT Status: Confidential working. Extensive areas are shown as having no mineral resource potential, but some isolated mineral 316 317 / 332 E Pagham 1 N Wineham 1 workings may occur in these areas. The presence of these operations generally reflect very local or 318 / 333 319 P Operator: Ranger Oil (UK) Ltd Operator: Conoco specific situations which are referred to in the accompanying report. Drilled: 1990 Drilled: 1987 A EXL194 Status: Confidential Mineral Resources M INDEPENDENT Status: Confidential The maps are intended for general consideration of mineral issues and not as a source of detailed information on specific sites. The maps should not be used to determine individual planning applications F Lidsey 1 O Bolney 1 or in taking other decisions on the acquisition or use of a particular piece of land, although they may give Operator: Carless 50 O Operator: Esso useful background information which sets a specific proposal within context. EXL 292 Drilled: 1987 Drilled: 1963 138 C INDEPENDENT Total depth: 1173 m Scale 1:100 000 Total depth: 2440 m SU 80,90 EXL295 Status at completion date: Suspended Status: Plugged and abandoned with G MIDWEST K N pending long term test; oil discovery gas shows in the Hastings Beds, 132-142.5m Compiled by P.M. Hopson, D.J. Harrison, S. Holloway and D.E. Highley D I shows in Great Oolite limestone PL211 P Balcombe 1 334 SOCO B EXL ARCON G Baxter’s Copse 1 Project Leader: D.E. Highley. EXL 263 PL240 PL205 Operator: Conoco SOCO SOCO SOCO L Operator: Conoco Drilled: 1986 Planning Consultant: J.F. Cowley, Mineral and Resource Planning Associates. T J Drilled: 1983 Total depth: 1724 m EXL 222 Total depth: 2366 m ARCON Status: Plugged and abandoned Digital cartography by C. Simpson, British Geological Survey, Keyworth. Status: Suspended pending long term test Oil shows in Great Oolite limestone Q Worth Forest 2 Operator: N.M.D. Syndicate Ltd 331 Production of this map was commissioned and funded by the H Middleton 1 Drilled: 1932 Operator: Pennzoil Total depth: 573 m Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions PL241 CAIRN F Drilled: 1971 Status: Plugged and abandoned (Contract MP0624). Total depth: 2128 m 1:50 000 map published H Status: Plugged and abandoned R Turners Hill 1 1 Hydrocarbon Well Operator: Conoco 00 SOCO: SOCO UK Onshore Ltd. as a dry hole E Drilled 1987 Exploration licence issued under Topography based on the Ordnance Survey 1:100 000 scale County maps. EXL MIDWEST: Midwest Energy Companies Ltd I Storrington 1 Total depth: 1335 m the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934. © Crown Copyright 1987 GREENFIELD: Greenfield Resources Ltd Operator: Conoco Status: Plugged and abandoned Drilled: 1985/86 1:63 360 map published Ordnance Survey licence number GD272191/1997 PL Production licence issued under INDEPENDENT: Independent Energy UK Ltd as a dry hole the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934. Total depth: 1822 m Licences as of 1 October 1997 Status: Suspended oil discovery S Humbly Grove 1 Digital SSSI and NNR boundaries © English Nature 1996 in Great Oolite limestone T Horndean 2 1:25 000 map published (Industrial Mineral Positions of Scheduled Monuments at 31st March 1994 as supplied by English Heritage. Assessment Sand and Gravel Resource map) The majority of monuments are plotted using a centred NGR sumbol. Consequently the actual area and/or length of a monument protected by the legal constraints of scheduling cannot be represented here. Monuments scheduled since that date are not accounted for. Lambs (Cl) 40 Digital AONB boundaries © Countryside Commission 1986 © Crown Copyright 1998 Copyright in the typographical arrangement and design vests in the Crown. D Building stone Published for the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions D D D under licence from the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Building stone has been produced from a number of horizons within the Lower Cretaceous rocks in the northern half of the county. The Applications for reproduction should be made to The Copyright Unit, Rowfant (Cl) working of building stone was much more widespread in the past, Office of Public Services, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, St Clements House, Turners Hill (Oil) present quarrying activities are restricted to a small number of sites 1-16 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BQ. producing stone on a very small-scale. Warnham (Cl) Rusper Road Rudgwick (Cl) (Cl) Bognor Common quarry near Petworth works silty sandstones towards the base of the Hythe Formation, mainly for constuction fill Paddockhurst but also stone for random walling. The Ardingly Sandstone within the Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand is a traditional source of building stone (Sst) Philpots Ashpark (Cl) (Sst) and is worked near West Hoathly. The Horsham Stone, a thin but West Hoathly (Cl) persistent sandstone within the Weald Clay, has in the past been Holmbush (Cl) worked to the south and west of Horsham as a traditional material for Theale Farm (Sst) paving and roofing. Small-scale production recently started near Slinfold. Hook 30 (Sst) Clay Balcombe (Oil) The Weald Clay of south-eastern England is one of the most important brickmaking raw materials in Britain. It is worked at several sites in West Sussex for the manufacture of facing bricks and tiles. The Weald Clay consists of mudstones and silty mudstones and is up to 400 m to Freshfield 450 m thick and has a very extensive outcrop within the Low Weald. Rogate (Oil) Southwater Laterally persistent beds of sandstone, shelly limestone and clay (Cl) Lane ironstone occur but are thin. Brick clay is worked at all levels within the (Cl, Sst) Weald Clay and the full extent of the formation is, therefore, shown on the map. However, certain horizons containing calcite, from fossil Southwater (Oil) remains, and also gypsum, have to be avoided during quarrying. James (Sst) Bognor The Wadhurst Clay, which occurs in the extreme east of the county in West Heath Common the High Weald, is up to 70 m thick. It is worked for brick clay at two Common (Cs) sites and its full extent is shown on the map. The Gault clay has an (Sst) extensive east - west outcrop to the north of the South Downs. It is a D D D difficult clay to use in brickmaking and is not shown on the main map. Minsted (Cs) Midhurst Tillington It is worked on a small scale for the production of hand-made bricks at Common Pitsham, near Midhurst and at Small Dole for sealing landfill sites.