Abstract
Nile Delta Basin is a mature gas producer in Egypt, from the early sixties till present many gas discoveries were made in both on & offshore areas in the Pliocene and Miocene reservoirs. The first gas field, Abu Madi Field, was discovered onshore Nile Delta in 1967, by AGIP (IEOC) with the drilling of the Abu Madi-1 (AM-1) well. The Abu Madi field started to be developed since 1970, it's producing wells increased to 21 and by end-1992, the field had a capacity of 400 MCF/d; being that time the biggest gas field in Egypt. Subsequently of the gas-bearing reservoir discovered in Abu Madi Formation (Late Messinian) - becomes one of the main targets in on and offshore area of Nile Delta. The stratigraphic framework of the Abu Madi Fm., was reveal through years, now a days this formation is considerate as a sedimentary infilling of a fluvial paleovalley characterized by stacked fluvial-deltaic sandstone and shale's. The classical Abu Madi Fm., lithostratigraphic layering comes from the Abu Madi/El Qaraa fields where the reservoirs sandstones levels have been named, starting from bottom, as follows: Level 3 (Lower, Main, Upper and 3A), Lev2 and Lev 1. The recently wells targeting the Lev 3 Main and Lev 3A reservoirs did not achieved the estimated remaining recoverable resources. In this study the new 3D seismic data, production history and petrophysical data were integrated in order to relocate the unachieved residual OGIP and also to find new drilling opportunities for additional potential resources.
