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These areas all contain oil-bearing reservoirs and are currently at various stages of
development. A stratigraphic column for the mature Western Desert petroleum province
is shown in Figure 1.2.
FIGURE 1.2
GENERALISED STRATIGRAPHY, WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT
Salt/Anhydrite
Dolomite
Limestone
Shale
Sandstone
LEGEND
Reservoir
Source
Unconformity
Oligocene
Eocene
Paleocene
Abu Roash Fm
Cenomanian
Albian
Aptian
Upper
Middle
Lower
Miocene
Cretaceous
PZ.
Craton
Jur. Rift
Cret. Passive Margin
Trans-
Pression
Gulf of Suez
Rifting
Khatatba Fm
Basement
Kharita Formation
Triassic-
Palaeozoic
Jurassic
Neocomian
Turonian-Coniacian
Maastrichtian-
Santonian
Alam el Bueib Fm
Bahariya Formation
Khoman Formation
Apollonia Formation
Alamein Formation
