It is being suggested by some people on this Board that you simply can't find shallow oil... welll .. I would refer you to Wikipedia's overview of the East Bakersfield Oilfield:
"The Kern River Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley of California, north-northeast of Bakersfield in the lower Sierra foothills. According to a California State Historical Marker of the original site in Kern County, "Oil was discovered at 70 feet in 1899, when Tom Means persuaded Roy Elwood and Frank Wiseman, aided by Jonathan, Bert, Jed, and Ken Elwood, George Wiseman, and John Marlowe, to dig here for oil. On June 1, 1899, 400 feet to the north, Horace and Milton McWhorter drilled this region's first commercial well."[1] Yielding a cumulative production of close to 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m3) of oil by the end of 2006, it is the third largest oil field in California, after the Midway-Sunset Oil Field and the Wilmington Oil Field, and the fifth largest in the United States.[2] Its estimated remaining reserves, as of the end of 2006, were around 476 million barrels (75,700,000 m3), the second largest in the state. It had 9,183 active wells, the second highest in the state.[3] The principal operator on the field was Chevron Corporation[4]"
WOW : OIL WAS DISCOVERED AT 70 FEET AND OVER TWO BILLION BARRELS RECOVERED TO DATE. THIS IS THE SAME FIELD WHERE GETTY FIRST DEMONSTRATED HOW TO INJECT STEAM INTO THE SAND TO ASSIST WITH THE RECOVERY OF SHALLOW VISCOUS OIL RESERVES. BELIZE IS CURRENTLY BEING SHOWN (TAUGHT) HOW TO REMOVE OIL FROM VUGGY DOLOMITE IN THE STANN CREEK OIL FIELD. DOLOMITE: ITS A TYPE OF CARBONATE ROCK, SO YOU ACIDIZE UNDER PRESSURE, IN ESSENCE THEY ARE FRACKING THE SHALLOW FACIES TRAPS ALONG THE COASTAL PLAIN, WITH AN ACIDIC MEDIUM. THE GEOLOGY IS PROBABLY THE SAME AS AT THE NEARBY MONKEY RIVER SITE WHERE THE COMPLETE LITHOLOGY WAS RECOVERED (CORED). SOME OF THESE MARINE FACIES TRAPS WILL BE FULL AND OTHERS EMPTY DEPENDING ON A MULTITUDE OF OROGENIC PROCESSES THAT HAVE OCCURRED ALONG THE BELIZEAN COAST (READ MAYA MTNS.). THE ROCKS ARE PROBABLY LARGELY CRETACEOUS UNDER A SHALLOW CLOAK OF RECENT SEDIMENT. GO TECO.
I REPEAT MYSELF, BUT I URGE MOST LONGS TO DISENGAGE. THE FACTS WILL SOON BE FULLY REALIZED BY ALL. OILJOB
