Oil and gas production from submarine fans of Los Angeles basin

Conference · Sun Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1984 · Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6417699

Redin, T

The Los Angeles basin is a small but relatively deep Neogene basin located in the most northeast portion of the southern California continental borderland. Total cumulative production to 1982 has been 7.3 billion bbl of oil and 5.8 tcf of gas. Per unit volume of sediment, the Los Angeles basin is one of the richest in the world. It was silled basin within the oxygen-minimum oceanographic zone during the upper Miocene and Pliocene. A combination of rich biogenic sedimentation along with rapid burial by coarse to fine clastics and relatively high paleoheat flow provided almost perfect conditions for the generation and migration of oil and gas. Structural deformation was intermittent throughout the Neogene but was most intense and culminated in the late Pleistocene to Recent. The multistoried oil sands with different crude oil types suggest most of the oil is indigenous to the formation in which it is found.

• Research Organization: Union Oil Co. of California, Ventura
• OSTI ID: 6417699
• Report Number(s): CONF-8405216-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States) Journal Volume: 68:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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