California Offshore Production History

Michelle Malkin: Obama's Interior Department still going rogue

Michelle Malkin: Obama's Interior Department still going rogue

The White House rationale for the renewed crackdown? Because we said so.

The latest plan involves the interior secretary’s authority to auction oil and gas leases and to oversee oil and gas research and exploration on the OCS. Pyle explains that the “2012-17 plan leaves out the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the vast majority of OCS areas off Alaska.

National Ocean Industries Association President Randall B. Luthi told the Oil and Gas Journal (an industry publication): “This deeply disappointing ‘no new access’ plan does not reflect the comprehensive, ‘all of the above’ energy policy touted by the administration, nor does it keep pace with the energy policies of foreign nations that are expanding their offshore access to develop badly needed oil and gas.”

U.S. East Coast OCS

On August 17, 1976, the Minerals Management Service held an
auction of 154 leases off the East Coast raising $1.17 billion in lease
bonuses. Drilling on these leases commenced in 1977. A total of 35
wells were drilled in Baltimore Canyon. Eight of the 35 wells were
drilled in Hudson Canyon, which is part of the greater Baltimore
Canyon, and five of them tested natural gas at flow rates ranging
between 5.9 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) and 18.9 mmcf/d.
One of the wells also tested oil from a shallower formation at a flow
rate of 630 barrels per day of 48.4° API-quality crude oil. The oil
was found in a Texaco well that tested 18.9 mmcf/d of gas.

We Need To Find 36 MMBOPD

We Need To Find 36 Million More Barrels Of Oil A Day - Robert Lenzner - StreetTalk - Forbes: "We Need To Find 36 Million More Barrels Of Oil A Day"
Let's see, US Outer Continental Shelf, Deepwater, oil sands, oil shales...the Bakken maybe?