Natural Seeps & The Creation Of The California Oil Industry
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- Join us in this video beginning with visits to several natural oil seeps located in seven different counties in California. Next, we explore some history beginning with the creation of the California oil industry in the 1860’s. Finally, we discuss some science around the formation of oil deep within the Earth, the migration of oil upward through the Earth, the trapping of oil within underground accumulations, and the natural seepage of oil at the Earth’s surface.
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Introduction 00:09
USGS map and flyover views of seep locations in seven counties 0:55
Ventura County seep visits 3:15
Santa Barbara County seep visits 5:02
Los Angeles County seep visits 5:36
Kern County seep visits 7:30
Mendocino County seep visit 8:57
Colusa County seep visits 10:04
Humboldt County seep visits 11:55
Offshore California oil and gas seeps 13:09
Examples of oil use by Native Americans 14:26
California gold rush and a wave of people 16:09
Supply chains and clipper ships 16:23
Whale oil lamps for the mining camps 16:31
Stanford Brothers sell and refine lamp oil 16:40
1859 Drake oil well disrupts the lighting industry 19:20
Oil well drilling promotion begins in California 19:56
The profession of ‘oil smellers’ 20:20
Historic Humboldt County oil wells 20:43
Drilling near California oil seeps 21:31
Stanford brothers “oil tunnel” in Ventura County 22:02
32 California Counties favorable for oil development 22:42
California oil production growth in the 1800’s 22:51
California oil industry outlook in 1901 23:11
Light bulb and electricity disrupts kerosene 23:32
Crude oil displaces coal 23:44
Internal combustion engine disrupts transportation 23:58
Steep growth of global energy use over time 24:06
Two California oil basins and peak oil production rate 24:43
Four waves of global energy transitions 25:30
Geology and plate tectonics 26:16
Geology and igneous rocks 27:44
Geology and sedimentary rocks 28:16
Geology and metamorphic rocks 28:58
Phytoplankton and organic shale oil source rock 29:32
Oil generation from organic shale with burial 30:39
Oil migration upward from deep organic shale 30:52
Regulation of oil wells vs. water wells 31:37
Oil and gas seep pathways 32:02
Unconventional oil development not commercial in California 32:11
My elementary school 30 miles east of LA took us on a field trip to La Brea Tar Pits natural history museum. All tye kids loved it.
Thank you for such a wonderful tour around to all these different spots and rounding everything out with some context and definition! I wish my textbooks as a kid were as concise and easy to follow as your videos!
I live in Fortuna and you can call the land bureau to give you access to the headwaters park!
This right here is real california gold ! I live and was born and raised in west sacramento California and loved going to sutters fort as a kid they nevet talked about how important oil was to California's growth and how it intertwined with the gold rush and intercontinental railroad. My grandfather was a roughneck in san luis obispo and always talked of the many gas and oil seeps. Love the content . My mom works for a school district in sacramento im going to recomend this be played in history class. Great documentary!
I drive Hwy 20 all the time, never knew of the seeps. But I do recognize that rock formation, I'll be keeping an eye out next time I'm going that way.
Fun fact: Carpenteria was named for the Chumash ‘carpenters’ who plugged holes in the wood boats from those same oil seeps.
Thanks.
I love the smell of an oil refinery, which I worked in. Oil is a natural product of this beautiful Planet. We should all be grateful for this life growing source from our Terros.
Somehow, a measure banning fracking in San Luis Obispo county failed. And almost to the day, seeps opened up along Price Canyon road. And I love Petrolia CA. Not so much for its petroleum history, but for its stunning remoteness on our Lost Coast.
Fun Fact from a Fortuna resident, Petrolia has a bunker owned by Scientology. It's just a place they meet but it's still so random lol
Oil is a the earth's natural weeping mineral oil deposits.
Drive the highway from Santa Paula to Ojai. Look at the oil oozing out of the cut banks.
There is quite a lot of oil in the Santa Cruz mnts. USGS has a report in Pdf online. I've been to one seep called Tarwater creek near Pescadero. Have seen the Tar seeps at Sargent ranch on a Topo map. They have wells there. La Honda has active and inactive wells. There is history of oil extraction in Purissima canyon and Tunitas canyon. Also near Butano out of the public eye. Also much around Hwy 17 that have not been drilled.
So if California has all this oil bubbling up why is gasoline $5.65 per gallon
I can see where you're coming from, but to be fair, all the oil deposits he just showed are tiny amounts by industry standards, wouldn't be worth it to them.