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PROVINCES IN
EGYPT
1- North Western
Desert Province
Nile Delta,
Mediterranean,
and North Sinai
Figure 2. Schematic geologic cross section of the Nile Delta Basin Province illustrating the
geologic definition of three of the four assessment units (AU) in this study (dotted red lines):
Nile Margin Reservoir AU, Nile Cone AU, and Eratosthenes Seamount AU. The fourth AU,
Mediterranean Ridge, is out of the plane of the cross section. Modified from Barber (1981) and
Abdel Aal and others (2000). Location of projected section shown in figure 1. 1, Miocene (postMessinian) and Pliocene-Quaternary; 2, Messinian Salt; 3, Miocene (pre-Messinian); 4,
Paleogene-Cretaceous; 5, hypothesized pre-Cretaceous; 6, Eratosthenes Seamount. USGS image.
Upper Egypt
4- Upper Egypt
The first attention for the possibility of
petroleum occurrence in Upper Egypt was in
1984 by M. Nagati who supposed the
presence of Aulacogene in Upper Egypt. He
supposed a possible Mesozoic rift acted by
triple junction as seen in the following figure:
2- Komombo Basin
Al Baraka Field
3- West Komombo
7 Nov. 2010