| Abstract: | The Sudr-Nubia(!) oil-prone total petroleum system dominates the densely explored Gulf of Suez part of the rifted Red Sea Basin Province. Upper Cretaceous to Eocene source rocks, primarily the Senonian Sudr Formation, are organic-rich, areally uniform marine carbonates that have generated known ultimate recoverable reserves exceeding 11 BBOE. The name Nubia is used for sandstone reservoirs with a wide range of poorly constrained, pre-rift geologic ages ranging from Early Paleozoic to Early Cretaceous. Syn- and post-rift Tertiary reservoirs, especially the Kareem Formation, also contain significant reserves.
Partly overlapping Sudr-Nubia(!) is the areally larger and geochemically distinct, oil-and-gas-prone Maqna(!) total petroleum system within the southern Gulf of Suez basin and the sparsely explored remaining Red Sea basin. Known ultimate recoverable reserves are 50-100 MMBOE and more than 900 MMBOE, respectively, in those areas. Both the source and reservoir rocks in this petroleum system are Tertiary, dominantly Miocene, in age. Maqna(!) has the greater potential for future resource development. |
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| Citation Author: | Lindquist, Sandra J. |
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| Citation Series Number: | 99-50-A |
| Citation Search Results Text: | The Red Sea Basin Province: Sudr-Nubia(!) and Maqna(!) Petroleum Systems; 1999; OFR; 99-50-A; Lindquist, Sandra J. |
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| Text: | The Red Sea Basin Province: Sudr-Nubia(!) and Maqna(!) Petroleum Systems; 1999; OFR; 99-50-A; Lindquist, Sandra J. |
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| Date Other: | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
