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Abstract
Egypt is a mature oil and gas producer, having a long history in hydrocarbon exploration and production since1886. Significant hydrocarbon potentials still unrecovered, and many challenges are facing explorers to discover the remaining reserves in different prospective basins of Egypt.
The most prolific and prospective oil province in Egypt is the Gulf of Suez. The Petroleum exploration around the Gulf of Suez began just over 100 years ago at Ras Gemsa, with commercial scale oil production starting in 1909. Now, the Gulf is a well established oil province and ranked the seventh in terms of production among the major rift basins of the world.
The Gulf of Suez is located between latitudes 27º N and 30º N and longitudes 32º 10’ E and 34º E (Fig. 1.1) and is known as ″The Clysmic Gulf″ (Hume, 1921; Robson, 1971).
It is an intracontinental; late Oligocene rifted basin originally formed during the early Paleozoic as a narrow embayment of the Tethys that was intensively rejuvenated during the rifting phase of the great East African rift system during the Paleogene (Bosworth et al., 1998; Montenat et al., 1998; Jarrige et al., 1990).
Figure 1.1.