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Abstract
l. Location of the study area.
The Qarun area under discussion covers about 7000 km
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in the northern Western Desert of Egy,:>t, situated immediately
to the south west of Cairo (fig.l), this area is between Latitude
29° 12’ : 30° 00 Nand longitude 30° 06’ : 31° 18’ E.
The surface features of the Qarun area (fig.2) can be geographically
divided into a large northern part of open desert,
and a smaller southern part of the Faiyum depression that ineludes
the brackish lake Qarun. The area to the north of the
lake is marked by steep cliffs leading up to the desert plateau.
To the south, the lake is bordered by heavily cultivated land
2. History of oil exploration activity.
Fifteen oil exploration wells in the greater Qarun area
have been drilled. Two wells were drilled in the area by Standard
oil in 1946/47 on the Abu Roash uplift (AR-l and AR-2) In
the late sixties three wells were drilled by Amoco (KTN-1, G.RIE-1
and GND-1). In. the seventies both Amoco and Braspetro carried
out extensive v ibroseis seismic prog rames and drilled sev era ll
wells, as BR 3-1, RR 6-l and RR 27-1 for the later ca:npany. In
1973 Amoco ( now Gupco discovered the small WD.l9 oil field, in
which three wells were drilled (h’D.l9-l, -2 & -3), to the north
of Qarun area. In 1978, two wells were drilled by British Petrolewn
Co. (T.56-l and T.57-l). At the begining of 1984 Shell Winning
N.V.Co. was awarded concession rights for most of the area