A chemostratigraphic study undertaken on the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary successions encountered by 5 wells located in the Western Barents Sea (7019/1-1, 7120/5-1, 7117/9-2, 7216/11-1s and 7316/5-1. The Western Barents Sea area is increasingly being targeted for hydrocarbon exploration, however limited reliable biostratigraphic information, coupled with the lack of well control, plus marked lateral facies and thickness variations, all contribute to the great difficulty involved in trying to correlate these successions and map their distribution. This study demonstrates the ability of chemostratigraphy to establish a correlation framework for the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary successions of the Western Barents Sea area, as well as providing useful information about their provenance.