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elmasryselim

State Information Services: Oases - 0 views

  • Baharia oasis Located 365 km south west of Giza and 200 km from Farafra Oasis,the Oases are famous for their palm trees, olives, apricots, rice and corn. Intertwined trees provide attractive scenery with contrast to massive sand dunes.
  • The oases are famous for their 398 mineral and sulphur springs
  • AL Kharga Located 600 km from Cairo, 200km West of AL-Dakhla , AL Kharga used to be the last but one stop on the Forty Days Road, the infamous slave-trade route between North Africa and the tropical south.
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  • is the biggest New Valley oasis. Outside the main  centre is the Temple of Hibis, built on the site of  Saite, Persian and Ptolemaic settlement.
  • One of the few Persian monuments in Egypt, the 6th century B.C. temple is well-preserved with painted vultures and huge reliefs of Darius greeting Egyptian gods on the outer walls.
  • AL Dakhla Runs from different periods, it is located 200km west of Al Kharga. Dominated on its northern horizon by a wall  of rose-coloured rock,fertile cultivated areas are dotted between sand dunes along the roads from Farafra and  Kharga in this area of outstanding natural beauty. The  capital, Mut,its name is attributed to Mut the consort of  god Amon.
  • Farafra Located between Baharia and Dakhla Oases, 32o km North West of Dakhla. Known as Ta-iht or the Land of the Cow in Pharaonic times,it is an isolated village, of which the oldest part lies on a hillside, next to peaceful palm groves; a short ride away, there are hot sulphur springs at Bir Setta and EL-Mufid Lake where you can swim. The oasis houses Qasr AL-Farafra and Qasr Abu Minqar which are ruins of Roman buildings.
  • The White Desert A trip to the White Desert is something that no visitor to the New Valley should miss. Travellers coming From Bahariya will cross through the Black Desert, passing the tiny oasis of El Heez on the way. Nearby, there are some Roman ruins, including a church with Coptic graffiti. Bahariya and Farafra are separated by huge golden sand dunes which make a stunning photograph during the journey.
  • Siwa Siwa is one of the most fascinating oases on the edge of the Great Sand Sea. Its rich history includes that visit of Alexander the Great to Amun Prophecy Temple in order to predict the prophecy of Amun in 331 BC. Siwans have their own culture and customs, and they speak a Berber language, Siwi, rather than Arabic.
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    Baharia/Al kharga/Al Dakhla/Frafra The White desert/ Siwa  Basic information ... some states
elmasryselim

SOLAR WATER PUMP | KarmSolar - 0 views

  • The project is a fully integrated solar energy solution  powering a 30 kW  submersible (Grundfos) pump, achieving an average   flow rate of 140 m3/h and serving a pivot irrigation area.
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    Egyptian Solar Energy Company They have development projects ideas worth our discussion for the 2nd report
elmasryselim

The Corrosive Well Waters of Egypt's Western Desert - 0 views

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    (I can't highlight pdf's) Ground-water development in the New Valley Project of  Egypt's Western Desert, like that in many other parts of the  world, has been troubled by serious corrosion of metal casings,  screens, pumps, pipes, and fittings. 
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    Get all your water sources together and decide whether anything is going to happen in the near future -- and therefore whether water development is going to be part of your limited recommendations.
elmasryselim

Desert development Corridor: Into the Sahara - 0 views

  • This article advances the case for a proposed superhighway west of the Nile from the Mediterranean Sea coastline to Lake Nasser. The proposal would provide numerous opportunities for the development of new communities, agriculture, industry, trade and tourism around a 2,000 km strip of the Western Desert.
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    Farouk El-Baz proposes a superhighway to solve Egypt's pressing problems
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    Okay. A brand new brainstorm. Check to see if anyone, especially in power, is doing anything with this idea. If not, just note it in the status report and forget about it for recommendations for near future.
serag_86

More development on its way - Egypt Oil & Gas - 0 views

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    I keep thinking that oil and gas is the story of the Western Desert. True??
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    Yes, oil and gas are among the essential development plans in the Western Desert.
serag_86

Methods for solving agricultural problems - 2 views

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    Solving agricultural problems
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    Fine, but how much agriculture is there in terms of feeding the country? Feeding the local citizenry is important. And it's somewhat important is there are plans to start urban/town centers. Otherwise, food would have to be shipped in, which it is to much of Egypt already.
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    This study is mainly concerned with providing a better agricultural atmosphere for the land area by means of using better techniques to avoid soil deterioration and better agriculture. I will see if I can get hold of more statistics about food and agricultural consumption.Thank you.
elmasryselim

Towards a Water Based Regional Development Model for Siwa Oasis in the Wester... - 3 views

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    Water Development in Siwa
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    (For some reason I can not highlight this) starts with a brief review on the status of  environmental and economic condition in Siwa oasis and its regional sphere. It then discusses the changes  that occurred during the  last 50  years trying to  identify the main factors affecting the balance  in the  environmental, social and economic system of the Oasis.
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    Obviously of concern for any tourism or urban/town developments. The presence or absence of water affects almost everything.
serag_86

Development in Western Desert - 1 views

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    Oil development in Western Desert
nivert

Apache makes oil and gas discoveries in Egypt's Western Desert - 0 views

  • In the Siwa Concession in the southern Faghur Basin, Apache’s Khalda joint venture (JV) with EGPC, drilled the SIWA 2-L2, the first development well in the previously announced SIWA-L Field. The offset well test-flowed 3,047 bpd on natural flow from
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      Siwa Oasis
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    Right, all this oil development should be gathered together and looked at seriously. This is big money.
elmasryselim

Apache investing $1.4bn in Western Desert concession area: Khalda president - Daily New... - 1 views

  • Egypt’s total oil production is approximately 680,000 barrels of crude. The Western Desert contains 55% of the production. Gas production stands at 4.9bn cubic feet per day.
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      Stats
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      I think stats would go in your Tags
serag_86

Western Desert | Egypt Tourism Authority - 2 views

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    Interesting, potentially. Who are these people? The government? Do they have any projects underway?
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    Yes, They are lunching a campaign to attract tourists to come and visit Egypt again. And yes, they have different developing ideas among many touristic sites all over the Western Desert area.But essentially, they are doing a more of a marketing and advertising plans for tourism.
nivert

Feasibility study - 2 views

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    The article investigates the potential and constraints of reintroducing earth construction architecture in four of the six western desert oases as case studies. These oases form the New Valley Governorate of Egypt: Baharia, Farafra, Al-Dakhla and Al-Kharja. Two field studies were undertaken.
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    We will be able to use this for settlement expansions in the deserts. It talks about appropriate ways of building and how to overcome problems of settlements in the desert.
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    There is no highlighting on pdf's but we want to focus on the last points, pg 196 before acknowledgements. Introduces ways of expansion, potential problems and solutions. We will expand on the points through information from the article.
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    While this idea is a good one, at some point you'll have to decide whether it's going to be among the major recommendations you'll make aobut the region. Maybe just noting it in the status report is enough.
nivert

Landscape and Water in the Oases of Egypt's Western Desert - 0 views

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    Perfect source
elmasryselim

Hydrogeological studies on the Nubian sandstone aquifer in El-Bahariya Oasis, Western D... - 0 views

  • The current study aimed to evaluate hydrogeologically the Nubian sandstone aquifer in El-Bahariya Oasis.
  • It represents the main water-bearing horizon in the study area
elmasryselim

Egypt Western desert: oil and gas - 0 views

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    (you can download pdf) Apache Corp., Houston, largest independent in Egypt in terms of acreage held, has reported two discoveries on the Qarun concession southwest of Cairo, where it has five rigs running. Apache, which acquired Phoenix Resource Cos. Inc. last May, also has high expecations for the Khalda and Khalda Offset concessions farther west, and it recently acquired the northernmost concession in the Gulf of Suez.
elmasryselim

Governorates of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    basic information to be used as a guideline in understanding how Egypt Governorates are divided 
serag_86

Hydrocarbons in Western Desert - 0 views

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    orty-two rock samples representing seven formations (Ras Qattara, Khatatba, Masajid, Alam El Bueib, Kharita, Baharyia, and Abu Roash) and six thermal burial history modeling of wells (Tut-1x, Kahraman-1, Yasser-1, Salam-3x, Meleiha-4x, and El-Kharita-1x) were used to characterize potential source rocks for generating capability of oil preservation in terms of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion.
serag_86

Fighting Drought in the Western Desert - 1 views

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    Using a typological value enables similarities among assets to be extracted. [*] Monetary poverty does not accurately reflect the well-being of herders. [*] The reduction in livestock is not linked to monetary poverty. [*] Livestock is mainly an economic safety net in the case of drought. [*] For urban families, livestock is a social safety net in traditional society.
serag_86

Gold Mineralization in Egypt - 1 views

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    Although gold production from orogenic deposits in the Arabian-Nubian Shield is currently relatively minor, extensive alluvial and lode fields were exploited by the ancient Egyptians along the western side of the Red Sea in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. In the Eastern Desert of Egypt,
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    Go quickly by anything judged to be minor...unless experts are saying that it could become a major factor if such and such technologies were applied.
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    Ok, that's an insightful remark, thank you.
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