Key challenges to realizing full potential in an emerging giant gas province: Nile Delta/Mediterranean offshore, deep water, Egypt

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 607-624

  Dolson, J C ^a   Boucher, P J ^b   Siok, J ^c   Heppard, P D ^c  

^a BP ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep water gas; Egypt petroleum geology; Exploration; Nile Delta; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052548404     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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