The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square...
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world's largest natural oil seepage is Coal Oil Point in the Santa Barbara Channel, California. Three of the better known tar seep locations in California...
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offshore field was suspected for a long time, largely due to the persistent natural seepage of oil from the sea floor. The Coal Oil Point seep field is now...
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explorers who noted oil slicks in the Santa Barbara channel (see Coal Oil Point seep field). In 1792, when the English explorer James Cook anchored his ship...
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Carpinteria Tar Pits (category Oil fields in Santa Barbara County, California)
tar pits were used as a local rubbish dump. Petroleum seep Asphalt volcano Coal Oil Point seep field "Tar Pits Park". Carpinteria.com. Retrieved 2012-03-20...
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respiration Arctic methane emissions Atmospheric methane Biogas Coal Oil Point seep field Energy density Fugitive gas emissions Global Methane Initiative...
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structures are thought to form above geologic faults through which petroleum seeps from deeper in the Earth's crust. Asphalt volcanoes are vents on the ocean...
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Hydrocarbon exploration (redirect from Oil field prospecting)
crust using petroleum geology. Visible surface features such as oil seeps, natural gas seeps, pockmarks (underwater craters caused by escaping gas) provide...
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and the University's Coal Oil Point Reserve. The SMCA covers 10.51 square miles, including Goleta Point (also known as "Campus Point"). The marine protected...
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Abiogenic petroleum origin (redirect from Abiotic oil theory)
oil to seep up from the mantle; furthermore it is infilled with a relatively thin veneer of sediment, which was sufficient to trap any abiogenic oil,...
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Chickering American River Reserve Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve Elliott Chaparral Reserve...
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first is cannel coal, which was used widely in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and western Virginia (now West Virginia) to manufacture oil during the first...
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bitumen from seeps along the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers to waterproof their birch bark canoes from early prehistoric times. The Canadian oil sands first...
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to oil in the water due to the presence of natural seeps in the vicinity for at least tens of thousands of years; the area around Coal Oil Point has...
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Glossary of oilfield jargon (redirect from Free point)
an oil well to the surface to give valuable information during the drilling process about the rock in the well. CSG (coal seam gas) or CBM (coal bed...
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Bitumen (section Synthetic crude oil)
bitumen. The oil sands of Alberta, Canada are a similar material. Neither of the terms "asphalt" or "bitumen" should be confused with tar or coal tars. Tar...
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incidents such as the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill (2008) and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010) have left lasting impacts on water...
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September 2017. Brown, Nicole (11 May 2017). "East River oil spill: Thousands of gallons seeped into water, Coast Guard estimates". amNewYork. Archived...
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complicated thrust structure." The first wells were drilled into Pitch Lake oil seeps in 1866. Kerosene was distilled from the pitch in the lake from 1860 to...
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Irish Sea (redirect from Oil and gas exploration in the Irish Sea)
potential for petroleum generation with oil shows seen in a number of wells together with natural hydrocarbon seeps recorded from airborne surveys. New[when...
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (redirect from Alaska oil pipeline)
to locate reported seeps. Ebbley and Joesting reported on these initial forays in 1943. Starting in 1944, the U.S. Navy funded oil exploration near Umiat...
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can be "associated" (found in oil fields), or "non-associated" (isolated in natural gas fields), and is also found in coal beds (as coalbed methane). It...
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mounds are concentrated off the coast at Point Conception, Coal Oil Point, and Carpinteria. A natural oil seep also exists off the west coast of San Miguel...
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Shale gas (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from July 2022)
or million BTU]." Unconventional (oil & gas) reservoir Biogas Oil sands Peak oil Tight gas Fracking Underground coal gasification "U.S. Energy Information...
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History of the petroleum industry in Canada (redirect from Canadian Oil and Gas -- The First 100 Years)
1859 an oil explorer found a natural gas seep near Moncton, New Brunswick. Dr. H.C. Tweedle found both oil and gas in what became the Dover field, but water...
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Wytch Farm (category Oil fields of England)
borehole at Kimmeridge showed that oil was seeping out, and 1960 that BP's Kimmeridge Oil Field was discovered. The field was discovered by the British government...
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Bruce P. Luyendyk (section Marine hydrocarbon seeps)
began a study of the marine hydrocarbon seep field at Coal Oil Point, California. The object was to quantify oil and natural gas emission from these submarine...
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