Geology of North Africa and Arabia
Information, Exchange and Research

Geoscience Societies and Authorities

• The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC).
• Sedimentological Society of Egypt.
• Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority (EGSMA), Cairo.

Academic Geological Studies

• Palaeogeographic maps Carboniferous-Pliocene Egypt (IGCP 369).
• North Africa-Arabia Working Group at the University of Bremen, studying the Cretaceous-Early Tertiary of Egypt.
• Controls on Oligo- Miocene syn-rift sedimentation, Gulf of Suez, Sinai, Egypt (Prof. J. R. Underhill, Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy Group, University of Edinburgh).
• Miocene Syn-rift development in the Gulf of Suez (Basin and Stratigraphic Studies Group, University of Manchester).
• Short note in Bild der Wissenschaft (in German) about Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum in Egypt (based on research by Dr. Robert Speijer and Dr. Tom Wagner, Univ. Bremen).
• Environmental impacts on the geomorphological and hydrogeological aspects of north Sinai, Egypt (Mohamed El Alfy, Freiberg University / Germany and Mansoura University / Egypt).
• Neogene climate reconstructions NE Africa (Prof. Pachur, Free University, Berlin).
• The Red Sea Basin Province: Sudr-Nubia and Magna Petroleum Province. By S. Lindquist (USGS Open File Report).
• The Mangrove Coast of Florida as a Modern Analogue for the Cretaceous Paralic Environments of Egypt (abstract by Kenneth Lacovara, Drexel University).
• Geology and Geography of the Nile Basin.
• Bahariya Dinosaur Project. A new web site with information on paleoecological research being undertaken in the Egyptian Sahara.
• Bahariya Dinosaur Project, Great Western Desert, Egypt (Kenneth Lacovara, Drexel University).
• Bahariya Dinosaur Project, Great Western Desert, Egypt (Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania).
• West's Geology Directory (Egypt).
• Homepage of Associate Professor Abdeldayem (paleomagnetist) at Tanta University, Egypt.
• DinoData Egypt: information on dinosaur fossils found in Egypt.
• Geology of Sinai.
• Geology of Egypt: webpage on the AAPG website.
• Geology of Egypt: webpage of Professor A. Allam, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. Contains abstracts and results from a number of papers relating to the geology of Egypt.
• Geology of Abu Zeneima's surroundings (Western Sinai, Egypt): webpage covering the geology of the area and relevant links. Produced by Daniel Marty-El Bokeili, a member of the Paleontology Group of the Geological and Paleontological Institute, Basel, Switzerland, following an internship at the Sinai Manganese Company in Abu Zeneima, Egypt.

Commercial Geological Studies

• FrOGTech Egypt report, focus on tectonostratigraphic framework
• Geocomp (Cairo): Sedimentological and Biostratigraphical services for the petroleum industry in Egypt
• Earth Resources Exploration (EREX) - Petroleum Consultants, based in Cairo. Products and services include a multiclient Gulf of Suez study, biostratigraphy, sedimentology, courses, field seminars etc.
• Eastern Mediterranean seep-seismic study, by Infoterra (formerly NRSC).
• Satellite structural interpretation for hydrocarbon exploration (Red Sea, Sinai), by NPA.
• Exploration data / reports offered by First Exchange.
• Geochemistry data Egypt (by the British Geological Survey).
• Hydrocarbon potential Gulf of Suez (by MEGE).
• TGS-NOPEC is a global provider of non-exclusive seismic data and associated products to the oil and gas industry. NDD-AM-97 Nile Delta Deep Aeromagnetic Survey 1997 Blocks B and C - offshore Egypt.
  

Oil & Gas companies

• Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC, State Oil Company).
• Oil and gas activities, incl. petroleum news (MBendi): Introduction, Exploration.
• Overview Egyptian oil and gas industry (by EIA).
• Apache.
• Energy Africa.
• Repsol.
• BG.
• Agip (ENI).
• Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO).
• BP Amoco.
• Centurion Energy International Inc. Projects in Egypt.
• Tullow Oil (details of exploration and development activities in Egypt).
• Melrose Resources Plc (a UK based oil and gas exploration, development and production company with interests in Egypt, Bulgaria and the United States).
• Veba Oil and Gas: activities in Egypt.
• OilEgypt.com: Egypt portal for oil, gas and hydrocarbon industries.

Mining in Egypt

• Mining (MBendi).

Satellite Images and Geological Maps

• Gulf of Aqaba / Sinai Peninsula.
• Spaceborne Imaging Radar image of the Safsaf Oasis (near Sudanese border.)
• Geological maps, Egypt.
• Shuttle Images: Desert Agriculture, Sand dunes West Central Egypt, Safsaf Oasis, Giza, Sinai, Dakhla Oasis.
  

Landmines

• Landmine Monitor: provides a summary of landmine information for Egypt.
• United Nations Mine Action Assessment Mission Report Egypt.
• Further landmine information resources are listed in the landmine section on the safety page.

Egypt - General information

• Daily News by allAfrica.com.
• Country Profile (MBendi).
• Egypt travel guide and tourist information, including Nile cruises and historic tours
• Country overview (Miftah Shamali).
• Digital maps (maps.com).
• Egypt topographic maps from About.
• Energy data and information for Egypt.
• Egypt: a country analysis brief (United States Energy Information Administration).
• Research Central - Egypt Resources (links and resources relating to Egypt).
• ABYZ news links for Egypt.
• Centre for Sinai: a general information and travel site for the Sinai Peninsular.
• Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) Programme: The NSAS is a huge groundwater resource shared among four countries within the Eastern Sahara in North-East Africa (Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan).