ABSTRACT

BP Egypt and its equity partner RWE Dea are studying the potential for deepwater natural gas developments in the West Nile Delta (WND), approximately 50 km offshore Egypt in water depths between 100 m and 1100 m. The area presents numerous geohazard challenges to development activities, including seabed slope instability, turbidity currents, mud volcano activity, pockmarks, fault displacement, seismicity, bioherms, seabed erosion, tsunamis, drilling hazards, variable soils and topographic constraints (Evans et al., 2007).