Habitat of Oil in Abu Gharadig and Faiyum Basins, Western Desert, Egypt

Awad, Ghareeb M.

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“…Then, the Gondwana began breaking apart during the Jurassic-Cretaceous that caused localized volcanic flows and the restoration of northward tectonism in the northern ANS region (Hashad, 1978;Garfunkel and Derin, 1985;Klitzsch, 1986;Meneisy, 1986). The mid-Atlantic opening during the Middle Jurassic caused the African plate to move to the east with respect to Eurasia causing sinistral shearing, N-S and NW-SE normal faults, substantial magmatism with alkaline affinity, and development of the Syrian Arc folds system (Said, 1962;Dewey et al, 1973;Awad, 1984;Sestini, 1984;Girdler, 1985;Greiling et al, 1988). The rift system of the Red Sea/Suez rift initiated by the Oligo-Miocene caused exhumations and rock removals along their flanks, outcropping the ANS basements and forming basic dykes and systems of normal faults.…”

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Tectonic evolution of the Gabal Loman area, North Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications from low-temperature multithermochronometry on the Arabian-Nubian shield

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The Neoproterozoic Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS) in the Eastern Desert of Egypt encloses the regional thermal-tectonic history from its development till the Oligo-Miocene when the Red Sea rift system was initiated. The application of multi-thermochronometry techniques has proven to be a successful approach to revealing the influence and extent of each regional tectonic event and the recreation of the tectono-thermal development of the studied region through time. Therefore, characteristic samples from the ANS different rock suits of the Gabal Loman area at the western flank of the northern Red Sea were collected. The Zircon fission-track data reveals the Carboniferous cooling ages, while the apatite fission-track cooling ages present two differential time spans of Cretaceous and Eocene-Oligocene. The time-temperature history modeling is integrated with fission-track data to reveal three differentiated cooling events developed in response to regional tectonic events: 1) the Hercynian (Variscan) tectonic event that influenced the ANS vicinity with rock uplifts of ca. 4 km through the Devonian-Carboniferous time, 2) the Gondwana disintegration event which influenced the region with differential rock exhumations, and 3) the northern Red Sea rifting through the Oligo-Miocene which caused a regional ca. 1 km of rift flanks exhumation. This modest rift flank uplift suggests a passive rift of the northern Red Sea rifting in the region of study.

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Tectonic evolution of the Gabal Loman area, North Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications from low-temperature multithermochronometry on the Arabian-Nubian shield

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“…The surface geology of the Western Desert North of latitude 28° is considered of complex nature. The sedimentary sequence in this area has been studied and dated by several authors, e. The area of study lies in the northern unstable shelf, (Awad, 1984) concluded that Qattara Depression Area and its continuation (Abu Gharadig and Fayoum basins) to the Nile Delta were affected by several tectonic events. These geological processes resulted in the Formation of significant faults that extend in an ENE-WSW direction, as well as the accumulation of a substantial amount of Upper Cretaceous sediments.…”

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Relation Between Pore Pressure Evaluation and Hydrocarbon Saturation for Abu Roach Formation in Badr EL-Din 15 Field, Western Desert, Egypt.

Talaat,

El Sayed,

Ghorab

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Egyptian Journal of Geology

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ED-15 oil Field which is located in the North-Western region of the Abu Gharadig sedimentary basin within the Egyptian Western Desert. Bed-15 Field spans across latitudes 29° 45' to 30 ° 05' N and longitudes 27° 30' to 28° 10' E and considered a component of the Badr El-Din Concession, which is situated approximately 300 km west of Cairo and around 100 km west of Bed-1 location. Abu Roach Formation is the subject of the research using a combination of petrophysical data, well log analysis, and subsurface geologic studies to understand the potential hydrocarbons in Abu Roach Formation, Badr 15 Field, using 5 wells (Bed15-1, Bed15-3, Bed 15-7, Bed15-8 and Bed15-9) different types of petrophysical parameters (porosity, shale volume and water and hydrocarbon saturations) were determined. Four wells (Bed15-1, Bed15-3, Bed 15-7 and Bed15-9) were selected for evaluating pore pressure of Abu Roach Formation utilizing drilling exponent (Dxc) and wireline logs. A correlation was observed between the pore pressure and the hydrocarbon saturation in the area under investigation.

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“…Gindi basin, Beni Suef basin, and Paleozoic Basins Abu Gharadig basin includes a huge number oil and gas fields in its depo-center and troughs; such as Abu Gharadig field, North Abu Gharadig field, Badr El-Din (BED) lease, GPT field, Wadi field (WD 33), Asala platform, Diyur field, , Raham lease, Karama -Karama SW leases in which Karama SW oil field exist(Fig- 1:2). (Awad, 1984), (Schlumberger, 1984), (Bayoumi and Lotfy, 1989), (Bayoumi, 1996), (El Diasty, 2014), (El-Sherbiny, 2002), (Hendy et al, 1992), (Mahmoud et al,2016), (Shahin et al, 1986), (Kamel, 2017) and (Mahmed, 2018) and others. -121-…”

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Seismic Data Interpretation of the Upper Cretaceous Succession in the Karama SW Oil Field, Western Desert, Egypt

Abu-Hashish,

Aboelhassan,

Elsayed

et al. 2023

Scientific Journal of Faculty of Science, Menoufia University

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The northern part of the Western Desert seems to have passed through different phases of deformations in the late Cretaceous, post-middle Eocene and middle Miocene and the subsurface data indicated an early Mesozoic phase of normal faulting resulting of the tectonic evolution of the northern Western Desert where several hydrocarbon fields has been. Geophysical information in the form of seismic and well logging data are used to understand the structural elements, tectonic setting and stratigraphy of the upper Cretaceous rock units (Bahariya and Abu Roash Formations) in the Karama SW oil field, northern part of the Western Desert. The interpretation of the available seismic data led to the identification of the reflectors under investigation as well as to map and determine the structural elements on the tops of the evaluated lithostratigraphic units. 3D Seismic lines were used to construct four depth structure contour maps on the top of Abu Roash "C", Abu Roash "E", Abu Roash "G" and Upper Bahariya Formations reflecting the occurrence of major normal faults in various directions (mainly NW-SE) forming four way structural traps in shallow reservoirs in down thrown side from major fault and also there way dip closure.

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Habitat of Oil in Abu Gharadig and Faiyum Basins, Western Desert, Egypt

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Tectonic evolution of the Gabal Loman area, North Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications from low-temperature multithermochronometry on the Arabian-Nubian shield

Tectonic evolution of the Gabal Loman area, North Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications from low-temperature multithermochronometry on the Arabian-Nubian shield

Relation Between Pore Pressure Evaluation and Hydrocarbon Saturation for Abu Roach Formation in Badr EL-Din 15 Field, Western Desert, Egypt.

Seismic Data Interpretation of the Upper Cretaceous Succession in the Karama SW Oil Field, Western Desert, Egypt

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