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Title: Gas Potential Of The Outer Continental Shelf Of The Pacific Coast
Author: James C. Taylor
Source: American Gas Association 1976
Year Published: 1976
Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Pacific Coast is part of a much larger Pacific continental margin, and the two areas have had a similar geologic history since middle Tertiary time. Assessment of the gas potential in this offshore area is accomplished by examining the adjacent highly explored productive coastal basins in the tectonically unstable area west of the San Andreas fault and by reviewing results of initial exploratory drilling in the offshore. Only 5.5 percent (0.54 trillion ft3) of Californias total produced and remaining dry gas reserves are in these coastal basins, and this is concentrated in the Ventura basin in reservoirs of early Miocene age or older. The source rock for generating this dry gas and responsible for the higher than normal gas-oil ratios in the Ventura basin is believed to be the thick pre- Miocene strata beneath this basin. Associated dissolved gas from onshore coastal oil and gas fields amounts to 11.5 trillion ft with 91 percent from the Los Angeles and Ventura basins. Approximately 88 percent of this type of gas from oil fields has been produced from late Miocene or younger strata.

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