Asset Report
Egypt Western Desert exploration basin
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Report summary
Full-cycle returns in Egypt's Western Desert Basin over the past decade have been excellent. Despite the lack of large discoveries, explorers benefit from low unit finding and development costs. Exploration has focused on the northern portion of the basin, where two key plays are present: a Cretaceous play where reservoirs are predominantly oil-prone, and a deeper Jurassic play which is predominantly gas-prone. More recently, Apache has opened up a third play in even deeper Palaeozoic horizons, although this has yet to yield the level of resources found in the Cretaceous and Jurassic. Due to the low domestic gas price explorers are generally more focused on oil exploration, and hence much of the anticipated future drilling and prospective resource is associated with the Cretaceous play.
Table of contents
- Wells drilled
- Basin success rates
- Volumes discovered
- Prospective resource potential
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Play inputs
- Creaming curve and key play data
- Model field pool size distribution
- Existing discoveries and modelled prospective pool size distribution
- Prospective resources costs and underlying development assumptions
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
- Oil and gas prices
- TYP economics
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Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Drilling activity by well typeCumulative exploration wells by playDiscoveries and success rates
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Discoveries by licence year and drilling yearBasin creaming curveKey basin dataVolumes discovered by yearAverage discovery size and volume per well by yearTop discoveries (TYP period)Cumulative discoveries by playCumulative volumes discovered by playForecast data by play (outlook)
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What's included
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