Preface and Introduction • The role and value of ‘high-impact biostratigraphy’ in reservoir appraisal and development • Sequence stratigraphic subdivision of the Humber Group in the Outer Moray Firth Area (UKCS, North Sea) • Micropalaeontological biostratigraphy of the Magnus Sandstone Member (Kimmeridgian-Early Volgian), Magnus Field, UK North Sea • Wellsite biostratigraphy of Danish horizontal wells • Microfossil diachronism in southern Norwegian North Sea Chalks: Valhall and Hod Fields • Chalk paleoenvironments and depositional model, Valhall/Hod fields southern Norwegian North Sea • Towards a stable and agreed nomenclature for North Sea Tertiary Diatom Floras - the ‘Coscinodiscus’ problem • The Andrew Formation and biosteering - different reservoirs, different approaches • High resolution biostratigraphy and sequence development of the Paleocene succession, Grane Field, Norway • Forties Field (North Sea) revisited: a demonstration of the value of historical micropalaeontological data • Constraints on the application of palynology to the correlation of Euramerican Late Carboniferous clastic hydrocarbon reservoirs • Microfossil assemblages as proxies for precise palaeoenvironmental determination - an example from Miocene sediments of North-West Borneo • Reservoir biostratigraphy of the Pedernales Field, Venezuela • High resolution sequence biostratigraphy of a lowstand prograding deltaic wedge: Oso Field (late Miocene), Nigeria • Biosignals from the EA Field, Nigeria • Applied palaeontology: a critical stratigraphic tool in Gulf of Mexico Exploration and Exploitation