Introduction • The role of structural geology in reservoir characterization • Reservoir characterization and modelling: a framework for field development • Fault seal prediction: the gouge ratio method • Experimental fault sealing: shear band permeability dependency on cataclastic fault gouge characteristics • Identification and spatial distribution of fractures in porous, siliciclastic sediments • Flow through fault systems in high porosity sandstones • Physical character and fluid-flow properties of sandstone-derived fault zones • Assessment of the effects of sub-seismic faults on bulk permeabilities of reservoir sequences • Reservoir characterization: how can anisotropy help? • Numerical simulation of fluid flow in complex faulted regions • Curvature analysis of gridded surfaces • Strain partitioning during flexural slip folding • Fracture distribution in faulted basement blocks: Gulf of Suez, Egypt • Polygonal faulting in the Tertiary of the Central North Sea: implications for reservoir geology • Fault and fracture characteristics of a major fault zone in the northern North Sea: analysis of 3D seismic and oriented cores in the Brage Field (Block 31/4) • Structural geology of the Gullfaks Field, northern North Sea