The Future
Discovery Potenital of the California OCS
Piper, Kenneth A.1, Maher
Ibrahim2 (1) Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region, Camarillo, CA (2) MMS, Camarilla,
CA
This presentation highlights the results
for the California part of the 2006
assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Pacific Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) Region of the United States (i.e., the Federal
offshore area of California). Periodic assessments
are performed as part of a national assessment of undiscovered oil and gas
resources—in which the onshore and State offshore areas of the Nation are
assessed by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Federal offshore areas of the
Nation are assessed by the Minerals Management Service (MMS)—in order to
develop an updated appraisal of the location and volume of undiscovered
resources. The current update is based on the OCS Report 1995 National
Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources—Assessment of the Pacific
Outer Continental Shelf Region. This assessment was updated previously to
reflect data available as of January 1, 1999, and the current
assessment update reflects data available as of January
1, 2003.