Developing of Lower Cretaceous Clastic Reservior for Menes-Nu Fields as Stratigraphic Play Using Integration of Multiple Data, North Western Desert, Egypt

Abstract Menes and Nu fields are discovered by Khalda petroleum company in 2016, the two fields located North west from Shushan basin. They are on a ridge high west from Umbarka field and North from fault bonding Shushan basin, also North from Barakat deep field, Distance between Menes -1x and UMB-1X almost 15 km to east, Nu are up dip from Menes and west from Menes closure. The phanerozoic history of the Western Desert was shaped by opening of first Paleotethys and then Neotethys which morphed into the modern Mediterranean Sea when the seaway between Arabia and Eurasia closed about 15 Ma. Extensional structures related to Paleotethys are present in the subsurface of the Western Desert but are presently not well known. Neotethyan rifting, however, left a complex legacy of multi- phase basins along the northern margin of Gondwana (Bosworth and Tari, 2021). Shushan basin lies to the south of Matrouh basin and shows the effect of ENE-WSW and WNW-ESE oriented faults on the basin architecture. Shushan basin witnessed Jurassic and early Cretaceous extension followed by late Cretaceous - Early Tertiary inversion (El Awdan et al., 2002). NE-SW and NNE-SSW oriented inversion anticlines as well as tilted fault blocks bounded WNW-ESE and NW-SE oriented normal faults from the main structural traps in the basins (Mostafta, 2008) Menes and Nu are Cretaceous play where are the main reservoirs mainly in AEB and Alamein with rare pay calculated in Baharyia The tectonic effect the area of deposition though to be there are uplift for the Paleozoic and Jurassic section before Cretaceous age where there are no Jurassic deposited and Paleozoic or eroded represented by Shia formation deposited directly on basement, unconformity represent the non-deposition age from Paleozoic to early Cretaceous