During Triassic deposition in the Central North Sea, synforms developed on the surface of the extending Zechstein salt. In the ensuing continental environment, coarse-grained clastic sediments were deposited in such depressions. These were later preserved as sediment ‘pods’. A progressive increase in coarse clastic input to the Central North Sea Basin during the Triassic was concurrent with continued salt movement and pod subsidence. During Late Triassic times the best initial reservoir quality sands were developed in the axes of TR30 sediment pods (e.g. Marnock facies). Early Fe-rich chloritization of these high-quality reservoir facies, combined with overpressure development, has resulted in the subsequent, relatively local, preservation of high-quality Triassic reservoirs, often at substantial depths. Understanding the basin-scale halokinetic controls on Triassic sequence and facies development, as well as the subsequent diagenetic effects, is crucial to establishing a framework for Triassic reservoir prediction. We have combined the re-interpretation of newly acquired and reprocessed seismic data with sedimentological and diagenetic studies of available core material. This has enabled the generation of a model for evaluating the distribution of Triassic reservoir and hence exploration potential in the Central North Sea.