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Monterey Overview: The Monterey Shale, which is primarily a crude oil formation that is located in both onshore and offshore Southern California at depths between 8000’-14000’, has the potential to be massive. Read More

Monterey Counties: CA: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey Read More

Monterey Pipelines (natural gas): PG&E, SoCal Gas Read More

ARTICLES

California Issues More Changes to Fracking Rules

October 10, 2014
Richard Nemec
California oil/natural gas regulators on Thursday issued yet another set of draft well stimulation rules, including for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), making further refinements based on nearly 200,000 comments that have been accumulated in the past 10 months. One change has raised the proposed threshold level for seismic activity tied to well stimulation to 2.7 from a previously proposed level of 2.0. Read More

Water, Water Everywhere in California Oil Production

September 26, 2014
Richard Nemec
In the drought-scarred West and the current era of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), California's preponderance of water produced in conjunction with oil is gaining more attention among industry and government leaders. Read More
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Californians Debate Oil v. Water Aquifers in State’s Monterey Shale

September 22, 2014
Richard Nemec
If its Monterey Shale potential is fully realized, California could get back to its modern-day high levels of oil production at the 1 million b/d mark, but ongoing issues of water and energy... Read More
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BLM: California Fracking Impacts Overstated

August 29, 2014
Richard Nemec
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in California, including its associated water use, is relatively benign, according to an independent report commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that was released Thursday. Read More

California Giving Away Water It Doesn’t Have, Researchers Say

August 21, 2014
Richard Nemec
California's state-run water rights allocation system has given away five times more in volumes than the average annual surface water supplies available through natural runoff, according to California researchers. Read More

Santa Barbara Ballot Measure Aims to Ban 'Aggressive' Drilling

August 19, 2014
Richard Nemec
California’s Santa Barbara County has an initiative (Measure P) on the November ballot aimed at restricting, if not banning, most enhanced drilling practices. A new statewide law (SB 4) sets rules, reporting and permitting requirements for what is designated as "well stimulation" drilling, which includes hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and various acidization processes. Read More

Monterey, Bakken Shales Are Polar Opposites, Experts Say

August 14, 2014
Richard Nemec
As the industry moves along its steep learning curve dealing with the shale revolution, it is becoming clearer there is no real comparison between California's Monterey Shale and North Dakota's Bakken Shale. They are night-and-day opposites, according to several industry speakers at a hydraulic fracturing (fracking) conference Tuesday in Los Angeles. Read More
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California's Oil/Gas Bread Basket Eyes Fracking Review

August 14, 2014
Richard Nemec
As California's new state rules (SB 4) for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) continue to unwind (see Shale Daily, June 18), the state's richest oil-producing area, Kern County, at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, is in the process of launching its own detailed review of fracking, mirroring an already challenging effort at the statewide level. Read More

California, North Dakota Differ on Fracking Chemical Disclosure

June 19, 2014
Richard Nemec
The oil/natural gas industry-supported independent chemical disclosure website FracFocus (www.fracfocus.org) was alternately praised and criticized by state officials in California and North Dakota on Tuesday during separate news media conference calls. Read More

California Fracking Rules Are Broadened, Regulator Says

June 18, 2014
Richard Nemec
A California oil and gas regulator on Tuesday characterized the state's latest revised draft hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rules as going beyond any other state’s since the law mandating them (SB 4) applies to all well stimulation activity, fracking just being part of what the recently revised rules cover. Read More

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