f Hydrocarbon Potentiality of the Egyptian Red Sea

P007 HYDROCARBON POTENTIALITY OF THE EGYPTIAN RED SEA 1 DR. TAMMAM MOHAMED TAMMAM Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation Red Sea is Oligocene / Miocene rift basin which might be set up due to the break-up of the basement blocks and then as a result of separation of African Craton from Arabia block. The early initiation of rifting and uplifting of rift shoulder sediments might be started in the Eocene/Oligocene . The second phase of rifting is within Middle Miocene and it may be currently active. The subsurface data enable to assess and clarify the stratigraphic and tectonic peculiarities of the area