Abstract
The Mesozoic inverted rift basins of the Western Desert and North Sinai are shown in the context of tectono-sequences that developed on the southern margin of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean. The detailed geometry of the structures and the stratigraphic relationships that resulted from structural inversion of the ‘Syrian Arc’ are shown using a number of regional seismic lines and well data. The structures show a range in the amount of inversion and reactivation that is important to the petroleum systems of the basins. Those structures described in the Western Desert have hydrocarbon pools associated with them that are filled to varying degrees; the degree of inversion is shown to have a direct impact on the relationship between hydrocarbon focus, migration and trapping.
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