Hydrocarbon exploration in a complex incised valley fill: An example from the late Messinian Abu Madi Formation (Nile Delta Basin, Egypt)

Autor:	Hamed Harby, Marco Serazzi, Stefano Dalla
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	business.industry Technical success Geology Exploratory phase Structural basin Incised valley Paleontology Geophysics Petroleum industry MADI Hydrocarbon exploration business Nile delta
Zdroj:	The Leading Edge. 16:1819-1826
ISSN:	1938-3789 1070-485X
Popis:	Since the early 1960s, when the Nile Delta Basin started to show its potentiality, generations of geologists and geophysicists have applied different concepts and methodologies, keeping pace with the latest available technologies: regional gravity surveys were followed by more and more extended and sophisticated 2-D seismic surveys up to almost routine 3-D acquisition in the 1990s. Among the oil companies more active in the area, AGIP, through its affiliate International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC), drilled in 30 years more than 50 new field wildcat wells, 29 of which had Messinian targets. Following this technological and conceptual evolution, the rate of technical success approached the 100% in the last exploratory phase of the Abu Madi Formation when 3-D seismic data and seismic attributes were extensively used to predict the sand distribution within the valley.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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