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EGAS

Ministry of Petroleum

and Mineral Resources

EGAS CONCESSIONS MAP

AND 2015 INTERNATIONAL BID ROUND BLOCKS

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N. Tineh

Offshore (b)

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Offshore (a)

Bp

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Sinai

Western Desert

M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A

N. E. BALTIM

IEOC

N. Damietta Offshore

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BA

LT

IM E

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IEO

C

N. Port Said

IEOCEl Burg

BG

El Temsah

IEOC

Denise

El Temsah

Karous

Restricted

areaAbu Madi

EGPC

Seth &Ha’py Dev.bp

BALTIM N.

IEOC

W . ABU MADI

IEOC

Rhamat

D. L.

NW. Khilala

DISOUQ AREA-1

DEV.

W. ABU MADI

IEOC

BALTIM S.

IEOC

30°

ALEX.-1 DEV.( A & A1 )

bp

ALEX.-2( B & B 2 )

bp

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A1

B

B2

Abu Qir (B)

Edison

WEB South Dev.

W. Delta Deep MarineBG

Rosetta West

BG

Rosetta Dev. BG

Rosetta North

BGRosetta 8 & 10

BG

Meret Dev.

W . Delta Deep MarineArea-5

BGN. Damietta

bp

W. Delta Deep Marine

Area-3BG

Tennin Dev.

IEOC

T1

Tao/ Kamose

PERINCO

N. Gamasa DV.

BG

El ArishAlexandria

W. Med-1

bp

W. Med. -2 DVL

bp

W. MED.

DEEP WATER

bp

Abu Qir (A)

Edison

N. Id

ku

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WE

N. Idku.

RWE

( B )

N. El Amriya

RWE

Restricted

area

N. Bardawil Dev.

N. El Max Offshore

bp

S. Disouq Onshore

Sea Dragon

S.Idku

Onshore

Petrocaltic

N. Tennin Offshore

bp

N.El Arish

Offshore

Dana Gas

N. Thekah

offshore

Edison

1El Qantara

Melrose2W. Qantara

Area-1

31°

32°

33°

Matruh

El Salum

El Dabaa

26 EGAS Agreements

12 Agreements Under EGAS Supervision

Thekah Dev.

Aten

dev.

S. Khilala

W . Khilala

El. W astani

W.El Manzala

Area -1

Dev.

Begonia

W. DikirnisE. Dikirnis

Balsam

W . Abu Khadra

S. Abu Elnaga

N E. Abu Zahra

W .Qantara

Area -1

Dev.

Sondos

S. zarka

El Basant

E.El. W astani

Dabayaa

Sama Dev.

Qantara Dev.

E. Abu Khadra

Luzi dev.

Rose Dev.

Portsaid

EGPC Development leases

Ashtom

El Gamil

Azhar Delta

S. El.Mansoura

Dev.

E. Delta

Dev.

El Tamad

Dev.

Satis Dev.

bp

Seth Southbp

Taurt Northbp

-1500

Shorouk

Offshore

IEOC

WDDM -8BG

WDDM -2BG

WDDM -4BG

WDDM -7BG

WDDM -6BG

N

S

EW

N. El Amriya

RWE

Offshore open areas

Onshore open areas

Restricted areas

EGAS Development leases

El BurgBG

N. Port FouadoffshoreEDISON

Karawanoffshore

IEOC

N. Leil offshoreIEOC

N. El salhiya onshoreDANA GAS

N. El Mahala onshoreTOTAL

El MatariyaBP

N. Damietta Offshore

bp

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Block 2E. PORT SAID OFFSHORE

Total area 1855 km2

Block 4N. RAS EL ESH OFFSHORE

Total area 1389 km2

Block 5W. EL TEMSAH OFFSHORE

Total area 1081 km2

Block 6S. TENNIN OFFSHORE

Total area 1275 km2

Block 7N. EL HAMMAD OFFSHORE

Total area 1927 km2

Block 8E. ALEXANDRIA OFFSHORE

Total area 1749 km2

Block 1W. EL ARISH OFFSHORE

Total area 1797 km2

Block 3N. ROMMANA OFFSHORE

Total area 1882 km2

EGAS

Ministry of Petroleum

and Mineral Resources

EGAS’ 2015 International Bid Round comprises

eight (8) exploration blocks, offered for competitive

bidders under Production Sharing Agreement

(PSA).

The 8 offered blocks are all located offshore in

shallow to moderate water depths less than 550m,

in the Mediterranean Sea region lying between the

Abu Qir Bay and El Arish city, with areal extents

ranging between 1081 km2 and 1927 km2.

The offered blocks are present in close proximity to

the three major trends of gas-condensate fields:

The NW-SE Temsah-Akhen Trend (e.g., Ha’py,

Akhen, Temsah, Wakar, Port Fouad Marine “PFM”,

etc...); The NNW-SSE Abu Madi Trend (e.g., Baltim

North, Baltim East, Baltim South, Abu Madi, etc…);

and the NE-SW Rosetta Trend (e.g. Sienna,

Simian, Saphire, Taurus, etc…). The fields of these

trends comprise combination structural/stratigraphic

traps involving sandstone reservoirs of Pliocene

and/or Miocene age.

It is also worth mentioning that some oil occurrences have been discovered in the eastern area of the offered blocks. These oil occurrences comprise the

Mango-1 sub-commercial oil discovery (drilled by Total in 1985 and tested 10000 BOPD from the Lower Cretaceous sandstones) and the Tineh-1 sub-

commercial oil discovery (drilled by IEOC in 1981 and tested with light oil recovery from the sandstones of the Oligocene). In addition to these oil

occurrences, the area of the offered blocks includes some recent Oligocene gas-condensate accumulations with commercial value (e.g. Satis & Notus).

The 8 offered blocks are situated in an area with well-established infrastructure for gas-condensate production/transportation, connecting the offshore

producing fields with the onshore terminals.

Introduction

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Taalab

Tennin

Baltim E

Baltim N

Baltim NE1

Baltim S

Nidoco

Abu Madi

H’apyAkhenSeth

Temsah

TaurtRinga

TunaDenise N

Seti-Plio

MayasAsfourAbu Seif

Semman

Segan

Wakar

Barboni

Nouras

PFM

DarfeelKarous

Tao

Kamose

Thekah

Zaraf Assad

Tennin WBaltim NE2

SiennaSimian

Rashid N

SerpentScarabSaffron

Saphire

Saurus

LibraTaurus

Ruby

Raven

Fayoum

Gas Fields/Discoveries

Gas-Condensate Fields/Discoveries

Gas Pipeline

Condensate Pipeline

Oil PipelineOffered Blocks

Development Lease Area

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The eight (8) offered blocks are all situated

in the Nile Delta Basin, except for Block 1

which lies Offshore North Sinai, at the

eastern periphery of the basin with the

Pelusium Line crossing the southern part of

the block. The Pelusium Line comprises a

NE-SW shear lineament separating the

Sinai Plate to the south from the Levant

Plate to the north.

Offshore North Sinai occupies the

southeastern Mediterranean region and

constitutes the southern part of the Levant

Plate. It comprises the northern extension of

the Syrian Arc inversion

structures; such structures comprise large buried inversion anticlines initiated in the Late Mesozoic and continued slightly during the

Cenozoic, and formed NE-trending asymmetrical folds. One of these buried anticlinal structures, located to the east of Block 1, was drilled

by the Mango-1 well in 1985. The well was tested and flowed oil at a rate of 10000 BOPD from the Lower Cretaceous sandstones.

However, after appraisal drilling, Total decided not to develop the discovery due to sub-commerciality. Despite being of sub-commercial

value, the well results indicate the presence of a working hydrocarbon system with oil generation in the area.

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Gas-Condensate Fields/Discoveries Minor FaultsDevelopment Lease Area

Offered Blocks

Nile Delta Basin & Offshore North Sinai - Regional Framework

EGAS

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The Nile Delta Basin is mainly a gas and condensate province

with numerous fields made up of combination structural

/stratigraphic traps involving sandstone reservoirs of Pliocene

and/or Miocene age. Some oil occurrences have also been found

in the basin and recent offshore drilling operations are mainly

targeting the deeper Oligocene section. Such drilling operations

resulted in a number of yet to be developed gas-condensate finds

with substantial hydrocarbon resources in sandstone reservoirs of

Oligocene age.

The Nile Delta Basin straddles the present day Mediterranean

shoreline and embraces the farmed lands of the onshore Nile Delta

in its southern part and extends offshore till latitude 33° 30‘ 00.00”

N. About 70% of its areal extent lies offshore in water depths up to

2800 m. The basin overlies the passive margin of northeast

Africa with depth to basement reaching 9 to 10 km. The onshore

sector of the Nile Delta Basin is crossed by an E-W striking narrow

zone (Hinge Zone) of down-to-the-north rotated fault blocks. This

zone marks the transition from thick, normal continental crust in the

south, to extended continental crust

under both the northern onshore Delta and (probably) the entire offshore sector of the basin. The southwestern part of the Nile Delta Basin overlies the eastern

extension of the Northern Egypt Basin, while its southeastern portion overlies part of the Syrian Arc province.

The offshore sector of the Nile Delta Basin comprises two principal structural trends; the NE-SW Qattara-Eratosthenes (Rosetta) Fault Trend and the NW-SE

Misfaq-Bardawil (Temsah) Fault Trend. The Rosetta Fault Trend forms part of a longer fault system extending from the Qattara Depression (southwest of the Nile

Delta) to the Eratosthenes Seamount at the northeast corner of the basin. The Misfaq-Bardawil trend is the most obvious expression of the NW-SE trend, which

was active later, in the Pliocene, in a strike-slip sense, triggering salt movement and controlling sedimentation patterns. These two major fault trends, the Rosetta

and Temsah, are controlling the distribution of significant gas-condensate fields and discoveries (e.g. the Rosetta and Temsah trends of gas-condensate

fields/discoveries). In addition to the three major fault trends (the E-W trend of the Hinge Zone, the NE-SW Rosetta Trend and the NW-SE Temsah Trend), the

Nile Delta Basin comprises a NNW-SSE Trend known as the Gulf of Suez (GOS) Trend. This fault trend is controlling the distribution of the Abu Madi Trend of

gas-condensate fields.

Nile Coastal/Deep Water Sub-Basin (Nile Delta Basin)

Nile Delta Basin

Alamein Sub Basin-

Nile Delta Basin

Levantine

Deep Marine

BasinHerodotus

Basin

Qattara RidgeKattaniya-Qantara High

(Syrian Arc)

Syrian

Arc

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(continued)

EGAS

Ministry of Petroleum

and Mineral ResourcesNile Delta Basin - Generalized Stratigraphic Column

The nature of the basement beneath the sedimentary succession of the Nile Delta

Basin is almost entirely unknown. The prospective section starts with Mesozoic strata

(including potential source rocks) at the base, probably resting on crystalline

basement. The Mesozoic succession represents a rifted passive margin, formed at

the opening of the Neo-Tethys Ocean in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic.

Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary dextral transpression generated the NE-SW

trending structures of the Syrian Arc system. Passive margin sedimentation, mainly

clastics but with some platform carbonates in the Eocene, continued through the

Paleogene. Sedimentation rates increased in the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene,

with northward tilting associated with opening of the Red Sea and Gulf of Suez to the

south. Outbuilding of coastal and deltaic sediments was interrupted by the

Mediterranean-wide sea level lowering in the Messinian (latest Miocene), when a

deep and extensive canyon system was incised into the earlier strata. Filling of the

canyon with fluvial sands of the Abu Madi Formation took place as base levels rose

again at the end of the Miocene. Evaporites were deposited at about the same time,

to seaward; they include several kilometers thickness of salt in the deep water sector

of the basin, and thin anhydrites nearer to shore.

Plio-Pleistocene outbuilding of the delta resumed, towards its present-day

configuration. Offshore environments included slope channels that conducted large

volumes of reservoir-quality sands away from the shelf into deeper water fan systems.

EGAS

Ministry of Petroleum

and Mineral ResourcesNile Delta Basin – Source Rocks

The Nile Delta Basin is a gas and condensate province, with only small amounts of oil. The youngest (Plio-Pleistocene) accumulations

are of dry gas only; proportions of condensate (and minor oil) increase with the age of the reservoir. This has led to speculation that at

least some of the gas may be of biogenic origin, generated from the Pliocene Kafr El Sheikh Formation. This is partly supported by

analytical data, though another possibility is that the gas has been derived by some kind of fractionation process (possibly biologically-

mediated) from deeper accumulations. Whether or not this is so, there is also evidence that Oligocene and Lower Miocene shales

have sourced some of the basin's hydrocarbons, probably reaching thermal maturity in the Pliocene. Jurassic and Cretaceous source

rocks, as in the Northern Egypt Basin, are also likely to have contributed, though the evidence is less direct.

Extension Of Main Gas Window Extension Of Early Gas Window Extension Of Proven Thermogenic Domain (Pre-Mess. & Mess. Targets)

Offered Blocks Gas Fields/Discoveries Development Lease Area Gas-Condensate Fields/Discoveries

Taalab

Tennin

Baltim E

Baltim N

Baltim NE1

Baltim S

Nidoco

Abu Madi

H’apy

AkhenSeth

Temsah

TaurtRinga

TunaDenise N

Seti-Plio

Mayas

AsfourAbu Seif

Semman

Segan

Wakar

Barboni

Nouras

PFMDarfeel

KarousTao

KamoseThekah

Zaraf Assad

Tennin W

Baltim NE2

SiennaSimian

Rashid N

Serpent

Scarab

Saffron

Saphire

Saurus

LibraTaurus

Ruby

Raven

Fayoum

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Depth Range of Discovered Reservoirs

Nile Delta Basin – Reservoirs & Seals

Proven reservoirs, with known accumulations, extend from

Oligocene to Pleistocene in age; all are sands or sandstones.

Pliocene reservoirs (Kafr El Sheikh and El Wastani formations) have

recently proved to be exceptionally prolific and of very high quality;

they include slope-channel sands and deep water fan sands. Upper

Miocene reservoirs of the Abu Madi and Qawasim formations are

mainly fluvial and were formed in the incised valley system of the

Messinian sea level lowstand. The Middle to Upper Miocene Sidi

Salim Formation includes good quality sands at several levels,

notably near the top (the Wakar Member); sands formed in a range

of environments from distributary channels to slope channels and

fan-delta. The Lower to Middle Miocene Qantara Formation has

recently been shown also to be potentially important, with the Raven

1 discovery; the sands are of shallow marine origin.

Seals in the basin are mainly shales, and predominantly

intraformational. Upper Miocene (Messinian) anhydrite (Rosetta

Member) forms the seal in only a very small number of cases, but

the equivalent thick halites may prove to be important as seals in the

further offshore sector of the basin.

Lithology

Eocene

Oligocene

MIO

CE

NE

PLIOCENE

Pleistocene

Age

Shallow Reservoirs

Intermediate

Reservoirs

Deep Reservoirs

HPHT

Reservoirs Depth

From 800 -- 2700 mt

>2700 – 4000 mt

> 4000 – 6500 mt

Gas Discovery

Reservoir Rock

EGAS

Ministry of Petroleum

and Mineral ResourcesNile Delta Basin - Plays

Approximately 75% of known reserves have been found in combination traps, with both stratigraphic and structural elements.

Channelized sands, intraformationally encased in and sealed by shales, typically form the stratigraphic element, whether the deposit is

fluvial (as in the Messinian Abu Madi Formation) or of slope-channel or fan delta origin (as in the Pliocene Kafr El Sheikh Formation).

The structural element is generally either one or more sealing faults (including growth faults), or a structural culmination over which the

reservoir is draped.