Course and Field Seminar

May 22 -26, 2022

Instructor : Dr. M. Darwish/ Raed Badr

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

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

Course Organization

This course and field seminar is tailored to provide an in-depth working knowledge considering the petroleum systems elements in the Western Desert highlighting the structural and sedimentologists. Hydrocarbon source potential and Reservoir systems (Rocks, Traps and Seals) will be addressed.

Field Program:

DAY 1: TRAVEL TO BAHARIYA DEPRESSION (360 KM)
6:00 Meeting point at EREX office
6:30am Drive via West of Cairo through El Giza-Bahariya Road.
Short stops for Oligo-Miocene sandstones with silicified wood. Drive to El Bahr Depression, a narrow area for the old eroded Delta (NW-SE trend)
Lunch. Stop and Break at a Desert Rest House.
Drive to Eocene Plateau where a spectacular landscape (Karst landforms) where iron ores of Gidida area were developed. Notices playa lakes around the road, closed to the sloping margins of the Depression.
(Hamra and Qazzan formations (Eocene Plateau), Ghazia strike slip fault system

Overnight at Bahariya Hotel

DAY 2 : BAHARIYA FORMATION: (TYPE SECTION)
Scope: Sedimentologic approaches and sequence stratigraphy applications vertical and lateral facies distribution at El Dist locality. (Measuring Sections) Boundaries definition (sedimentologic vs. stratigraphic)

Overnight at Bahariya Hotel

DAY 3: BAHARIYA FORMATION (EL MAGHARAFA HILL)

Measuring section for correlation and lateral continuity of the Bahariya Fm. with section at Dist area.
Elements and Parameters for correlation (Physical and Biogenic sedimentary structures)
El Mandisha Basalt, G. Al Englise volcanics , Segam well.

Overnight at Bahariya Hotel

DAY 4: NAQB EL HARRA AREA

Building a tentative 3D model.
Do we have tectonics control for short-distance facies changes.
Black Desert, G. El Marsous ring complex, Naqb El Selllem, White Desert if possible due to military station and security issue for 4X4 vehicules, Qaret El Sheikh Abdallah.
Panel open discussion

Overnight at Bahariya Hotel

DAY 5: DRIVE BACK TO CAIRO

Short stops for Eocene/Cenomanian Angular unconformity at Nabq El Harra
Arriving Cairo In the Afternoon

LOCATION

The field seminar is for five days in the Bahariya Oasis. The accommodation stay will be in Bahariya Oasis.

COURSE FEES

The cost covers a comprehensive manual, accommodation, meals and refreshments with transport by 4X4 vehicles during the field seminar.

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 thirty years, Dr. Darwish has offered appreciated consulting services with EREX on sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy for the oil companies in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Mauretania, Chad.