Talk:Monterey Formation

Age?
What is the age of this formation? Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 19:39, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Two good articles in World Oil

 * Monterey/Santos: Operators struggle with cracking code, November 2013
 * Unlocking the secrets of the U.S.’ largest onshore oil reserves: Monterey/Santos, Nov. 2012

NB: Google all 3 titles to bypass paywall, I'll be adding material from these articles as time permits -- Pete Tillman (talk) 02:46, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I've mads revisions based aon these articles, and also So Much Shale Oil—but So Hard to Get at the WSJ, Sept. 23, 2013. See what you think -- Pete Tillman (talk) 02:34, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

CO2 flooding in Antelope Shale (Monterey Formation), Buena Vista Hills Field
Came across this:
 * Very large volumes of oil in developed siliceous shale reservoirs of the southern San Joaquin basin, California, may be recoverable through carbon dioxide (CO2) flooding. More than 7 billion bbl of oil, trapped in the Miocene Monterey Formation, are present at relatively shallow depths in a series of large and giant fields discovered during the early part of the 20th century yet that have typical recoveries of less than 6%.

From: AAPG Bull 2001, v. 85 no. 4 p. 561-585 Antelope Shale (Monterey Formation), Buena Vista Hills Field: Advanced Reservoir Characterization to Evaluate CO2 Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery, doi: 10.1306/8626C947-173B-11D7-8645000102C1865D

--find a place for it later, --Pete Tillman (talk) 19:49, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Map?
It would be nice if there was a map showing where it was located. The text mentions southern San Joaquin Vally, however that is rather vague. Kevink707 (talk) 14:56, 22 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I've seen a couple, but they're not public domain. And I suck at making digital maps ;-[ .... Any help spotting (eg) a USGS map would be great. Also an offshore subcrop map (or even verbal descrip) would be good too. TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 20:56, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

More info for Monterey formation & oilfields
Good source: Petroleum System  of  the Santa  Barbara  Coast,  California, a 2013 field-trip guide from Stanford. Lots of good stuff here. Incorporate as time permits.

In particular, the guide has a nice cartoon of depositional environments for the Monterey. Should be able to make a Fair Use copy for the article. Pete Tillman (talk) 19:19, 18 April 2017 (UTC)