Samuel Warren Carey (1911–2002), Professor of Geology at the University Tasmania from 1946 until 1976, was recognised internationally as a controversial extrovert in global tectonics. He joined Oil Search Ltd, and then Australasian Petroleum Company working field geologist New Guinea 1934 1942. his colleagues carried out heroic campaign geology-based exploration under most difficult conditions....

The Middle Jurassic Brent Group sediments and their correlatives on the Norwegian shelf are, in economic terms, the most important hydrocarbon reservoir in NW Europe. In 1971 the Brent Field was discovered by Shell/Esso and tested in 1972 with 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil; nine major Brent sandstone fields were discovered by the end of 1973 (Brennand et al. 1990). In 1980 the northern...