Stratigraphic Column for Gulf of Suez, Western Desert and Nile Delta, Egypt (The Simplest for Students)

Eon Era Period Epoch

Recent (Holocene) Epoch
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Gulf of Suez
Seal , (rock salts)
Western Desert
Syn-Rift
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Miocene)
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Cenozoic
Quaternary
Tertiary
Post-Zeit
Kareem
Rudies
Nukhul
Reservoir , (basal miocene age,
represented by reefal limestone in some
areas and clastic sequence in another
areas fromthe gulf of suez)
Seal, (rock salts, anhydrite with shale
interbeds)
Seal , (gypsumand anhydrite with shale
interbeds)
Nile Delta
Moghra
Marmarica
Miocene
Recent (Holocene)
Pleistocene
Bilqas / Mit Ghamr
El-Wastani
Pliocene Kafr El-Sheikh
Post-Rift
Source , (Lower Miocene Shale), And
Reservoir , sandstone interbeds with
shale intervals forming lenses of
stratigraphic traps in many of oil fields)
Zeit
South Gharib
Belayim
Ras Malaab Group
Oligocene
Eocene
Syn-Rift
(Lower
Miocene)
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Cenozoic
Tertiary
Thebes
Esna-Shale
Rudies
Nukhul
Reservoir , (basal miocene age,
represented by reefal limestone in some
areas and clastic sequence in another
areas fromthe gulf of suez)
Reservoir , (middle eocene age,
represented by cherty and flinty
limestone)
Source , (Paleocene)
Apollonia
Dabaa
Moghra
Miocene
Pliocene Kafr El-Sheikh
Source , (Lower Miocene Shale), And
Reservoir , sandstone interbeds with
shale intervals forming lenses of
stratigraphic traps in many of oil fields)
Pre-Rift
Eocene
Paleocene
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Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Cretaceous
Tertiary
Thebes
Esna-Shale
Reservoir , (middle eocene age,
represented by cherty and flinty
limestone)
Source , (Paleocene)
Brown-Limestone Source , (Upper Cretaceous)
Miocene
Apollonia
Source , (E,F and G), Reservoirs, (G,F,D,C,B)
late cenomanian, is considered the second main
reservoir rocks in the western desert, it
contains dolomite and limestone beds, (G, with
porosity 10-35% and the oil is 45 API), (F,
produced heavy oil (crude) with 15 API) (D,
produced oil with 36 API), (C, contains
sandstone and produce oil 32 API in Abu
Gharadig and Abu Sanan Fields)
Reservoir , (cenomanian, contains good
reservoirs with porosity 18-25%, about 90%
fromoil and gas fields are produced fromthe
bahariya as(Razzak, Khalda, Meleiha, Salam,
Amar, Yasser, Zahra, Tut, Horous and Lotus
Fields), these oil fields produced oil of about 34
to 50 degree API
Pliocene Kafr El-Sheikh
Abu-Madi
Khoman
Abo Roash (A to G)
Bahariya
Pre-Rift
Qawasim
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Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Matulla
Brown-Limestone Source , (Upper Cretaceous)
Miocene
Alamein
Source , (E,F and G), Reservoirs, (G,F,D,C,B)
late cenomanian, is considered the second main
reservoir rocks in the western desert, it
contains dolomite and limestone beds, (G, with
porosity 10-35% and the oil is 45 API), (F,
produced heavy oil (crude) with 15 API) (D,
produced oil with 36 API), (C, contains
sandstone and produce oil 32 API in Abu
Gharadig and Abu Sanan Fields)
Reservoir , (cenomanian, contains good
reservoirs with porosity 18-25%, about 90%
fromoil and gas fields are produced fromthe
bahariya as(Razzak, Khalda, Meleiha, Salam,
Amar, Yasser, Zahra, Tut, Horous and Lotus
Fields), these oil fields produced oil of about 34
to 50 degree API
Reservoir, (good potential reservoir rock, oil
bearing in Salumand Abu Gharadig Fields)
Reservoir , (hard and dense vuggy dolomite of
porosity 3-12% , oil bearing in Alamein, Yidma
and Razzak Field)
Abu-Madi
Abo Roash (A to G)
Bahariya
Kharita
Dahab
Pre-Rift
Qawasim
Sidi Salim
Source , (Jurassic)
Nubia-A
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Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Masajid
Khatatba
Reservoir , (consists of porous and
permeable and sandstone)
Matulla
Miocene
Alamein
AlamEl-Bueib
Qantara
Reservoir , (hard and dense vuggy dolomite of
porosity 3-12% , oil bearing in Alamein, Yidma
and Razzak Field)
Source , (Lower Cretaceous), and Reservoir ,
(contained fine grained sandstone which act as
a good reservoir rock, produced oil and gas in
Umbaraka, Hayat, Safir and Tut Fields)
Dahab
Pre-Rift
Qawasim
Sidi Salim
Basement
Source , (Jurassic)
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Mesozoic
Triassic
Jurassic
Masajid
Khatatba
Yakout
Ras Qattara
Shifah
Reservoir , (consists of porous and
permeable and sandstone)
Source , (Lower Carboniferous)
Reservoir , (consists of porous and
permeable and sand stone)
Nubia-C
Nubia-B
Basement
Miocene
Oligocene
Qantara
Pre-Rift
Dabaa
Eocene Apollonia
Jurassic
Masajid
Sidi Salim
Basement
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Basement
Pre-Rift
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Wadi El-Natrun
Jurassic
Masajid
Khatatba
Mahmoud Mostafa Badawy, (Demonstrator of Geophysics, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt)