Asset Report
Egypt Nile Delta exploration basin
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Report summary
The Nile Delta Basin covers an extensive area including onshore, shelf and deepwater environments. Early exploration focused on the low-cost onshore plays before gradually moving offshore. Recently, exploration has focused on deeper, high pressure/high temperature (HP/HT) presalt reservoirs of predominantly Miocene and Oligocene age.
Table of contents
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Summary of commercial outlook
- Advantages:
- Challenges:
- Rifting (Late Triassic – Early Jurassic)
- Passive drift (Middle Jurassic – Early Cretaceous)
- Syrian arc inversion (Late Cretaceous - Eocene)
- Cenozoic rifting (Late Oligocene – Early Miocene)
- Messinian salinity crisis (Late Miocene)
- Pliocene delta progradation (Pliocene - Present)
- Structural framework
- Sources
- Reservoirs
- Seals
- Major structures / traps
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Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Schematic cross section of the Nile Delta Basin subsurface and block diagram of gross depositional environmentsGeneralised stratigraphic column of the Nile Delta BasinKey source rocks
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Key reservoirsPetroleum events chartPrinciple structures of Nile Delta BasinExploration plays mapWells by lithologyKey play characteristicsExploration history mapDrilling activity by well typeDiscoveries and success rates
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What's included
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