“…In the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean, hydrocarbon reservoirs in the onshore region are formed by Neogene-Quaternary siliciclastic sequences (Fig. 2; EGPC, 1994;Leila et al, 2022a). The Messinian section, including the Qawasim and Abu Madi formations, hosts the most economically important potential reservoirs in the Nile Delta (EGPC, 1994;El-Nikhely et al, 2022).…”