Thanks to our Sponsors:

Chevron

Occidental

Shell

Trip leaders:

Morgan Sullivan (Chevron)

Hilario Camacho (Occidental)

Wanjiru Njuguna (Occidental)

John Harris (Numeric Solutions, LLC)

Participants:

Benjamin Slotnick, Jacob Siegel, Lei Fu, Sean Murphy, Xin Zhao, Gulce Dinc, Zuolin Liu, Tao Huang, Ya Sun, Yue (Max) Zhang, Jie Zhang, Brandon Harper, Sally Thurner

Day 1 Occidental lead

-man-made islands, production facilities, Wilmington Oil Field, LA Basin

Well heads

                            -Signal Hill Park, just above Long Beach Oil Field, LA Basin

Location of original Discovery Well of Long Beach Oil Field in 1921

Day 2  Chevron lead, Ridge Basin Part 1, North of Santa Clarita, the Grapevine

Deformed fluvial/deltaic deposits

Day 3  Chevron Lead, Ridge Basin Part 2, North of Santa Clarita, the Grapevine

Morgan showing off deltaic sediments

Gypsum

  Cross beds

Group deep in thought 

Ripple marks

Pliocene hoofprints

Day 4 Numeric Solutions and Occidental lead, San Miguelito Oil Field and Monterey Formation Outcrops along Arroyo Burro Beach

Group photo in front of anticlinal closure, San Miguelito Oil Field, just north of Ventura, CA coast

Embedded clast within reservoir

rock Miocene/Pliocene turbidites

Monterey Formation outcrops along the beach and excellent group photo

Group photo along massive fracture filled with oil matrix

Black Shale facies of Monterey Formation

Day 5 Numeric Solutions lead, Ojai Valley oil seeps