Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. (EGAS) plans to launch a licensing round in Western Mediterranean Sea. New acquired seismic and processed legacy seismic are to be available.  The area includes several structural domains namely Shelf zone, Herodotus Basin, Fold Belt and Matruh Canyon. The area is under-explored with only two offshore exploration wells:    Kiwi 1 was P&A, dry by Equinor (statoil) in 2010 in 2,706 m of water. The Objective was the Upper Miocene Sandstones (4,500 m). The well failed to find quality sandstones in the Miocene but good sandstone reservoir propertiesÂ in the Oligocene (Rupelian).     Sidi      Barani 1 was P&A      as a dry hole by Phillips in 1976 at a WD of 50 m. The reached a TD of      4,394 m. It had objective in Cretaceous      & Jurassic plays
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. (EGAS) plans to launch a licensing round in Western Mediterranean Sea. New acquired seismic and processed legacy seismic are to be available. The area includes several structural domains namely Shelf zone, Herodotus Basin, Fold Belt and Matruh Canyon. 