October 2014

Development of simple correlations to evaluate the petroleum potential of Quseir - Safaga oil shale, Egypt

The specific gravity of oil shale can be used as a practical tool for estimating total organic carbon (TOC) and the oil yield of shales from a given source. Sixteen random oil shale samples, mostly from the Upper Cretaceous Duwi Formation in Quseir - Safaga district in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, were collected. Experiments were conducted to determine the density, TOC and oil yield of such samples. The study has...

Author(s): Mina R. Shaker, Shouhdi E. Shalaby and Tarek I. Elkewidy