Exploration Of The Red Sea

At red sea explorers we offer an unbeatable liveaboard experience with diving opportunities all over the red sea.

Exploration of the red sea. Our routes stretch from sinai to the sudan and encompass all that s in between. The red sea is a promising frontier mega basin with potential hydrocarbon exploration opportunities for prospective stakeholders. The earliest known exploration of the red sea was conducted by ancient egyptians as they attempted to establish commercial routes to punt. Cairo egypt said it expected to in vite international oil and gas companies to start exploration in its red sea territorial waters during the first half of 2018 after the com pletion of seismic and geophysical studies.

A key difference between the gulf and the red sea is water depth. It extends southward from the proliferous gulf of suez rift where outcrops and subsurface data show that the elements of the petroleum system should also extend to the south. But god led the people about through the way of the wilderness of the red sea exodus 13 18. The red sea remains underexplored but one of the world s most intriguing areas for hydrocarbon exploration compared to the arabian gulf home to saudi arabia s safaniya and qatar and iran s joint gas field north field and south pars.

Petroleum ministry spokesman hamdi abdel aziz said two com panies will most probably finalise their studies early next year. It was important in early egyptian maritime commerce 2000 bce and was used as a water route to india by about 1000 bce. It was the wilderness of the red sea the mountainous land of the mid and southern sinai peninsula. Both involved long voyages down the red sea.

Study and exploration the red sea is one of the first large bodies of water mentioned in recorded history. The team was searching for the remains of ancient ships and artifacts related to stone age and bronze age trade in the red sea area when they stumbled upon a gigantic mass of human bones darkened by age. One such expedition took place around 2500 bce and another around 1500 bce by hatshepsut. The gulf of suez opened up about 30 million years ago and the northern part of the red sea about 20 million years ago.

Red sea rift the red sea was formed by arabia being split from africa by movement of the red sea rift. The sea is still widening and it is considered that it will become an ocean in time as proposed in the model of john tuzo wilson. With such diverse dive sites on our itineraries we cater for recreational diving of all levels as well as technical diving.