The East Irish Sea Basin: from caterpillar to butterfly, a thirty-year metamorphosis • Stratigraphy • Stratigraphical relationships and a revised lithostratigraphical nomenclature for the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic rocks of the offshore East Irish Sea Basin • The Penarth Group-Lias Group succession (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic) in the East Irish Sea Basin and neighbouring areas: a stratigraphical review • Regional structure • The Mesozoic and Tertiary history of the Irish Sea • Lower crustal structure of the East Irish Sea from deep seismic reflection data • Variation in thermal history styles around the Irish Sea and adjacent areas: implications for hydrocarbon occurrence and tectonic evolution • Basin analysis • The geology and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the North Channel Basin • Tectonic evolution of the Larne Basin • Structural evolution of the Isle of Man and central part of the Irish Sea • The hydrocarbon potential of the Cheshire Basin • Real and relict direct hydrocarbon indicators in the East Irish Sea Basin • Geochemistry • The occurrence and correlation of oils and Namurian source rocks in the Liverpool Bay-North Wales area • Fluid migration history in the North Irish Sea-North Channel region • The presence of sulphate-reducing bacteria in live drilling muds, core materials and reservoir formation brine from new oil fields • Sedimentology • Clastic sabkhas and diachroneity at the top of the Sherwood Sandstone Group: East Irish Sea • Challenging the `sheetflood’ myth: the role of water-table controlled sabkha deposits in redefining the depositional model for the Ormskirk Sandstone Formation (Lower Triassic), East Irish Sea Basin • Early Dinantian evaporites of the Easton-1 well, Solway Basin, onshore Cumbria, England • Fault analysis and diagenesis • Fault analysis of the Cheshire Basin, NW England • Characteristics of fault zones in sandstones from NW England: application to fault transmissibility • Faulting and porosity modification in the Sherwood Sandstone at Alderley Edge, northeastern Cheshire: an exhumed example of fault-related diagenesis • Diagenesis of the Sherwood Sandstone Group in the southern East Irish Sea Basin (Blocks 110/13, 110/14 and 110/15): constraints from preliminary isotopic and fluid inclusion studies • Field studies • Regional diagenetic controls on reservoir properties in the Millom accumulation: implications for field development • Calder Field appraisal well 110/7a-8, East Irish Sea Basin • The Douglas Field • The Lennox oil and gas field