Talk:Petroleum seep

Requested move
Most of this article is about the Coal Oil Point Seep Field. I think this info should be moved to a seperate article. Any other opinions? Green caterpillar 19:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I think, at least for now, that the Coal Oil stuff should be left where it is--the article would be greatly weakened by its removal, and cannot stand very well on its own as a full article. Let's see how things develop.DonSiano 20:05, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm curious why this wasn't originally merged into Petroleum geology? Viriditas (talk) 11:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to start cleanup by moving Coal Oil Point seep field to its own article. Viriditas (talk) 11:16, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

A billion barrels in the Monterey?
Don't know if anyone is watching this page, but I question this assertion. While the Monterey Formation does indeed contain an enormous oil reserve, in the range of a billion barrels, that reserve is nowhere near Coal Oil Point -- it's in Kern County and elsewhere. Remember that the Monterey is colossal; it's present in much of California. According to the California Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) the Coal Oil Point Oil Field produced a total of 1,307,279 barrels of oil before being abandoned, as played out, in 1984. (Its oil was in the Vaqueros, underneath the capping Rincon.) The actual amount of "seepable" oil in the vicinity of the Coal Oil Point field is considerably lower, probably by about four orders of magnitude -- basically whatever was left over from the old field, and a few scattered deposits around it. Antandrus (talk) 21:03, 28 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The 1999 JGR reference does state that the amount of oil found in the Monterey Formation offshore from Coal Oil Point is estimated to be in excess of 1 billion barrels. However the source says nothing about how long it will last at the current rate of seepage so I've removed that part as WP:OR. Vsmith (talk) 13:48, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Moved
Renamed page Petroleum seep, moved water content to Seep (hydrology) and created dab page. Most of the content and of the linking pages were petroleum related. Fixing links from other pages now. Vsmith (talk) 14:33, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

More scientific description
This article needs a more scientific description of why and how a petroleum seep occurs. It's on my to-do list, but that list is quite large. Nwhit (talk) 16:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Tar pit vs. seep
Prolly need to be clear, right up front, what the difference is between a seep and a tar pit. In the US, La Brea is well known, and I'm guessing it's a type of seep. Leptus Froggi (talk) 11:55, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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