Schofield, NickJolley, DavidHolford, SimonArcher, StuartWatson, DouglasHartley, AdrianHowell, JohnMuirhead, DavidUnderhill, JohnGreen, PaulBowman, MLevell, B2018-02-172018-02-172018Schofield, N, Jolley, D, Holford, S, Archer, S, Watson, D, Hartley, A, Howell, J, Muirhead, D, Underhill, J & Green, P 2018, Challenges of future exploration within the UK Rockall Basin. in M Bowman & B Levell (eds), Petroleum Geology of NW Europe : 50 Years of Learning : Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference. vol. 8, Petroleum Geology Conference series, vol. 8, Geological Society of London, Bath, pp. 211-229, 8th Petroleum Geology Conference, London, United Kingdom, 28/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1144/PGC8.37conference978-1-78620-277-22047-9921ORCID: /0000-0003-2065-6042/work/52605321ORCID: /0000-0003-0909-2952/work/169078653http://hdl.handle.net/2164/10049We would like to acknowledge the two reviewers, Tony Dore and Clayton Grove for their constructive, positive and enthusiastic reviews which substantially improved this manuscript. The editor Matt Allen is thanked for encouragement and support in putting the paper together. We acknowledge a governmental research grant from the Oil and Gas Authority Frontier Basins Research Program and British Government for funding the project “Evaluating the Prospectivity of the Rockall Trough – Towards a Complete View of the Petroleum System West of Britain”. Schofield would like to acknowledge the 8th Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe Conference for the DG Roberts/Peter Zeigler Best Paper Award. This contribution forms part of the theme “Key Future Geoscience Challenges” held at the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference. We would like to Acknowledge PGS for the donation of datasets in Rockall, and for continued support of research. CDA are acknowledged for providing publically released well and seismic data. Spectrum Geophysical are also thanked for donation of data for research in the Rockall. Interpretation was carried out using IHS Kingdom software. WGM 2012 gravity data courtesy of International Gravimetric Bureau. Maersk are thanked for use of Gravity Maps.201404417engQE GeologyQEConference item10.1144/PGC8.378