Characteristics of Recent Oil and Gas Discoveries in the Deep Water Portion of the Western Nile Delta, Egypt

S034 CHARACTERISTICS OF RECENT OIL AND GAS DISCOVERIES IN THE DEEP WATER PORTION OF THE WESTERN NILE DELTA EGYPT 1 DAVID PHELPS 1 JOHN BEDINGFIELD 1 RON ROBERTS 1 TOM MAHER 1 and TIM DODD 2 1 Apache Egypt P.O. Box 27582 Houston TX 77227 2 BP Egypt Cairo Egypt Over the past 35 years more than 4.0 BBOE have been discovered in the Nile Delta primarily as gas and condensate. With the discovery of multi-TCF gas fields in the western Nile Delta interest in the deepwater Pliocene play has increased significantly in the past few years. In 2002 Apache