WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Managers, exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, exploration supervisors and petroleum engineers.

COURSE ORGANIZATION

This course is designed to provide an in-depth working knowledge on the rift architecture, sequence Stratigraphy and rift sedimentation setting. The course will be one day in Cairo, followed by four days of field seminar in the eastern side of the Gulf of Suez. The sequential rift development, process of rifting development of extensional fault systems, synthetic, transfer zones, tectonostratigraphic events and cycle charts will be discussed.

COURSE OUTLINES

Course Lectures:

• Process of Rifting


• Rift architecture, rift segments, transfer and accommodation zones, block termination


• Sequence stratigraphic framework


• Tectonic setting of Suez Rift
• Tectonostratigraphic events and Eustatic Sea level fluctuations, implication to sedimentation
• Genetic frequency analysis of Syn-rift deposits

• General orientation


• Drag structures & Rift related faults pattern along Wadi Sudr Area


• Geometry of the eastern rift margin fault system and relationship to drag structures


• Onlap pattern of Syn-rift basin fill


• Ravinement surfaces and onlap patterns


• Tectonic Rift pulses and Syn-rift Basin Fill, Mid-Rudeis Event and Fan-delta progradational patterns


• Detecting Rift events and Sedimentation patterns from logging data

• Presentation of rift model and Syn-rift Sedimentation patterns


• Bounding Faulting & Rift Block orientation & geometry Seismic & Sequence Stratigraphic interpretation


• Geometry of the Baba transfer fault


• Nukhul hinge fault and Block boundary features


• Pre- & Syn-rift Sequences


• Nukhul Block & Back Basin Fill


• Rift volcanic activity


• Emphasis on the occurrence of Stratigraphic traps

• Relationship of the Baba and Nukhul Blocks


• back basin fill pattern, onlap of Lower Miocene Syn-rift sediments


• Syn-rift onlap against transverse fault complex of the Baba Rift-block


• Slump related recumbent fold structures

• Rift bounding faults


• Effect of Rift pulses on sedimentation and the development of Fan delta pattern complex


• Paleozoic Ramp structures


• Relation of Pre-rift succession and Miocene Syn-rift sequences


• Mid-Rudeis Fandelta complex


• Wadi Tayiba, view of tilted block and slump features


• Mid-Clysmic Event

• Return to Cairo

LOCATION

The first day will be held in the Maadi Sofitel Hotel, followed by the field seminar in the E. Gulf of Suez. The accommodation stay will be in the Ramada Hotel in Ras Sudr.

COURSE FEES

FIVE DAYS    U.S.$ 1950
The cost covers a comprehensive manual, refreshments and luncheon in Cairo as well as the accommodation, in double room, food and transport during the field seminar. The accommodation in Cairo is not included, but could be arranged upon request.

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE

DR. M. DARWISH has obtained his B.Sc. in 1968 from Cairo University and Ph.D. in 1979 from Bucharest University. He is EREX Consultant for Sedimentology and Professor in Cairo University for Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology. During the last ten years, Dr. Darwish has offered appreciated consulting services on sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy for the oil companies in Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and others.