The gulf consists of prerift to and , and synrift and postrift to clastics and | Detailed geological information on the Gulf• : 236 Ecology [ ]• , editor, Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to |
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Geography [ ] The gulf occupies the northwestern arm of the between Africa and the Sinai Peninsula | : 238 The October Field produces from the Nubia , the Nezzazat Formation, the Miocene Nukhul Formation, and the Miocene Asl Member of the Upper Rudeis Formation |
Geology [ ] Main article: The Gems Field was discovered in 1869, but did not produce until 1910.
17Situated to the east of the Sinai Peninsula is the smaller | It stretches some 300 kilometres 190 mi north by northwest, terminating at the Egyptian city of and the entrance to the |
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The Hurghada Field produced in 1913 | Along the mid-line of the gulf is the boundary between Africa and Asia |
The gulf was formed within a relatively young but now inactive , dating back about 26 million years.
27By 1998, over 1900 wells had been drilled and 120 fields identified | com database of geographic coordinate information |
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It is the third arm of the rift system, the second arm being the | : 236 Three large oil fields are in the gulf: the discovered in 1964, discovered in 1955, and the October Field discovered in 1977 |
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