SELECTED REFERENCES

The Red Sea area has significant representation in international scientific literature, with volumes of study, often resulting from regional symposia, periodically published. Primary sources of published information include private and nationalized industry, academia, regional governmental agencies, the Deep Sea Drilling Project and the United Nations Development Program / World Bank.

Abdine, A.S., Meshref, W., Shahin, A.N., Garossino, P., and Shazly, S., 1992, Ramadan Field – Egypt, Gulf of Suez Basin, in Foster, N.H., and Beaumont, E.A., compilers, Treatise of petroleum geology, atlas of oil and gas fields, structural traps VI: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 113-139.

Alsharhan, A.S., and Salah, M.G., 1997a, A common source rock for Egyptian and Saudi hydrocarbons in the Red Sea: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 81, no. 10, p. 1640-1659.

Alsharhan, A.S., and Salah, M.G., 1997b, Lithostratigraphy, sedimentology and hydrocarbon habitat of the Pre-Cenomanian Nubian Sandstone in the Gulf of Suez oil province, Egypt: GeoArabia, v. 2, no. 4, p. 385-400.

Arab oil and gas directory, 1996: Paris, France, Arab Petroleum Research Center, 615 p.

Barakat, A.O., Mostafa, A., El-Gayar, M.S., and Rullkotter, J., 1997, Source-dependent biomarker properties of five crude oils from the Gulf of Suez, Egypt: Organic Geochemistry, v. 26, no. 7/8, p. 441-450.

Barnard, P.C., Thompson, S., Bastow, M.A., Ducreux, C., and Mathurin, G., 1992, Thermal maturity development and source-rock occurrence in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 15, no. 2, p. 173-186.

Bayer, H.-J., Hotzl, H., Jado, A.R., Roscher, B., and Voggenreiter, W., 1988, Sedimentary and structural evolution of the northwest Arabian Red Sea margin: Tectonphysics, v. 153, p. 137-151.

Beydoun, Z.R., 1989, The hydrocarbon prospects of the Red Sea – Gulf of Aden: a review: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 12, no. 2, p. 125-144.

Beydoun, Z.R., and Sikander, A.H., 1992, The Red Sea – Gulf of Aden: re-assessment of hydrocarbon potential: Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 474-485.

Bohannon, R.G., and Eittreim, S.L., 1991, Tectonic development of passive continental margins of the southern and central Red Sea with a comparison to Wilkes Land, Antarctica: Tectonophysics, v. 198, no. 2-4, p. 129-154.

Bosworth, W., 1995, A high-strain rift model for the southern Gulf of Suez (Egypt), in Lambiase, J.J., ed., Hydrocarbon habitat in rift basins, Geological Society Special Publication No. 80: London, The Geological Society, p. 75-102.

Brown, G.F., compilor (U.S. Geological Survey), 1972, Tectonic map of the Arabian peninsula, 1:4,000,000, Arabian Peninsula Series map AP-2, prepared for the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources: Beirut, Lebanon, Middle East Export Press, Inc., printer.

Bunter, M.A.G., and Abdel Magid, A.E.M., 1989a, The Sudanese Red Sea: 1. New developments in stratigraphy and petroleum-geological evolution: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 12, no. 2, p. 145-166.

Bunter, M.A.G., and Abdel Magid, A.E.M., 1989b, The Sudanese Red Sea: 2. New developments in petroleum geochemistry: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 12, no. 2, p. 167-186.

Cole, G.A., Abu-Ali, M.A., Colling, E.L., Halpern, H.I., Carrigan, W.J., Savage, G.R., Scolaro, R.J., and Al-Sharidi, S.H., 1995, Petroleum geochemistry of the Midyan and Jaizan basins of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 12, no. 6, p. 597-614.

Coleman, R.G., 1993, Geologic evolution of the Red Sea: Oxford Monograph on Geology and Geophysics No. 24, New York, Oxford University Press, 186 p.

Colletta, B., Le Quellec, P., Letouzey, J., and Moretti, I., 1988, Longitudinal evolution of the Suez rift structure (Egypt): Tectonphysics, v. 153, p. 221-233.

Crossley, R., Watkins, C., Raven, M., Cripps, D., Carnell, A., and Williams, D., 1992, The Sedimentary evolution of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 15, no. 2, p. 157-172.

Feinstein, S., Kohn, B.P., Steckler, M.S., and Eyal, M., 1996, Thermal history of the eastern margin of the Gulf of Suez, I. Reconstruction from borehole temperature and organic maturity measurements: Tectonophysics, v. 266, no. 1-4, p. 203-220.

Hughes, G.W., and Beydoun, Z.R., 1992, The Red Sea – Gulf of Aden: Biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 15, no. 2, p. 135-156.

Hughes, G.W., and Filatoff, J., 1994, New biostratigraphic constraints on Saudi Arabian Red Sea pre- and syn-rift sequences, in Al-Husseini, M.I., ed., Middle East petroleum geosciences GEO’94, vol. II: Bahrain, Gulf Petrolink, p. 517-528.

Klett, T.R., Ahlbrandt, T.S., Schmoker, J.W., and Dolton, G.L., 1997, Ranking of the world’s oil and gas provinces by known petroleum volumes: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 97-463, CD Rom.

Knott, S.D., Beach, A., Welbon, A.I., and Brockbank, P.J., 1995, Basin inversion in the Gulf of Suez: implications for exploration and development in failed rifts, in Buchanon, J.G., and Buchanan, P.G., eds., Basin inversion, The Geological Society Special Publication No. 88: London, The Geological Society, p. 59-81 .

Lelek, J.J., Shepherd, D.B., Stone, D.M., and Abdine, A.S., 1992, October Field, the latest giant under development in Egypt’s Gulf of Suez, in Halbouty, M.T., ed., Giant oil and gas fields of the decade 1978-1988: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 54, p. 231-249.

Lewan, M.D., Ramini, H., and Tannenbaum, E., 1997, Petroleum formation in Senonian carbonate source rocks of the Dead Sea Basin (abs): Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Outcrop, September, 1997, p. 15-16.

Magoon, L.B., and Dow, W.G., 1994, The petroleum system, in Magoon, L.B., and Dow, W.G., eds., The Petroleum System – from Source to Trap: A.A.P.G. Memoir 60, p. 3-23.

Makris, J., and Henke, C. H., 1992, Pull-apart evolution of the Red Sea: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 15, no. 2, p. 127-134

Makris, J., Henke, C.H., Egloff, F., and Akamaluk, T., 1991, The gravity field of the Red Sea and East Africa: Tectonophysics, v. 198, p. 369-381.

Makris, J., and Rihm, R., 1991, Shear-controlled evolution of the Red Sea: pull apart model: Tectonophysics, V. 198, no. 2-4, p. 441-466.

Makris, J., Tsironidis, J., and Richter, H., 1991, Heatflow density distribution in the Red Sea: Tectonophysics, v. 198, no. 2-4, p. 383-393.

Magoon, L.B., and Dow, W.G., 1994, The petroleum system, in Magoon, L.B., and Dow, W.G., eds., The petroleum system – from source to trap: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 60, p. 3-24.

Mitchell, D.J.W., Allen, R.B., Salama, W., and Abouzakm, A., 1992, Tectonostratigraphic framework and hydrocarbon potential of the Red Sea: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 15, no. 2, p. 187-210.

Oil and Gas Journal, 1994 (July 11), Saudi production capacity climbing to 10 million b/d, p. 44-47.

Patton, T.L., Moustafa, A.R., Nelson, R.A., and Abdine, S.A., 1994, Tectonic evolution and structural setting of the Suez Rift, in Landon, S.M., ed., Interior rift basins: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 59, p. 9-55.

Petroconsultants, 1996, Petroleum exploration and production database: Houston, Texas, Petroconsultants, Inc., [database available from Petroconsultants, Inc., P.O. Box 740619, Houston, TX, 77242-0619].

Petroconsultants, 1989, Rift systems, hydrocarbon habitat and potential of rift-related basins: Dublin, Ireland, Petroconsultants, Inc.

Richardson, M. and Arthur, M.A., 1988, The Gulf of Suez – northern Red Sea Neogene rift: a quantitive basin analysis: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 5, no. 3, p. 247-270.

Rohrback, B.G., 1983, Crude oil geochemistry of the Gulf of Suez, in Bjoroey, M., Albrecht, C., Cornford, C., de Groot, K., Eglinton, G., Galimov, E., Leythaeuser, D., Pelet, R., Rullkoetter, J., and Speers, G., eds., Advances in Organic Geochemistry, 1981, Proceedings of the International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry: New York, Wiley and Sons, p. 39-48.

Salah, M.G., and Alsharhan, A.S., 1997, The Miocene Kareem Formation in the southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt: a review of stratigraphy and petroleum geology: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 20, no. 3, p. 327-346.

Salah, M.G., and Alsharhan, A.S., 1996, Structural influence on hydrocarbon entrapment in the northwestern Red Sea, Egypt: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 80, no. 1, p. 101-118.

Savoyat, E., Shiferaw, A., and Balcha, T., 1989, Petroleum exploration in the Ethiopian Red Sea: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 12, no. 2, p. 187-204.

Schandelmeier, H., and Reynolds, P.-O., eds., and Semtner, A.-K., co-editor of plates, 1997, Palaeogeographic-palaeotectonic atlas of north-eastern Africa, Arabia, and adjacent areas: Rotterdam, Netherlands, A.A. Balkema, 160 p., 17 plates.

Schutz, K.I., 1994, Structure and stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt, in Landon, S.M., ed., Interior rift basins: Tulsa, OK, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 59, p. 57-96.

Shahin, A.N., 1988, Oil window in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt (abs): Amercian Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 72, n.8, p. 1024-1025.

Shahin, A.N., 1997, Petroleum systems in the northern Gulf of Suez, Egypt (abs): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 81, no. 8, p. 1411.

Wescott, W.A., Krebs, W.N., Dolson, J.C., Karamat, S.A., and Nummedal, D., 1996, Rift basin sequence stratigraphy: some examples from the Gulf of Suez: GeoArabia, Middle East Petroleum Geosciences, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 343-357.