oa Komombo: A New Oil Province in Upper Egypt

The paper discusses some of the geological and geophysical work performed in Centurion’s Block 2<br>concession area in Upper Egypt; and which lead to the discovery of the Al Baraka field in 2007 -<br>leading to the opening up of a new petroleum province in the Mesozoic rift basins of Upper Egypt.<br>The Komombo Block-2 Concession is located on the west bank of the Nile River, about 570 km SSE of<br>Cairo, and about 260 km east of the Red Sea. It was part of a larger former Repsol concession which<br>was relinquished in 2001 after the drilling of five wells.