LAAPL / LABGS Joint Luncheon Virtual Meeting Event
on Thursday January 27, 2022 at 12:00pm PDT
Dear Members and Industry Friends,
With the current status of the virus still affecting public gatherings, unfortunately, our January meeting will be virtual.
Daniel C. Steward - The Exploration History and Remaining Potential of the Los Angeles Basin - LAAPL / LAGS Virtual Meeting Flyer
TOPIC: The 96-year exploration effort within the Los Angeles basin (LAB) has yielded 66 oil fields and as of 2009 produced approximately 8.8 billion barrels of oil. The appraisal of the discovered resources took several decades on a field-by-field basis and the question of complete appraisal across many of the fields is open. At a high level, at least 6 trends have emerged within the LAB, with variable degrees of exploration maturity: Whittier/Fullerton Embayment, Santa Monica Thrust, Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, Wilmington Graben, Santa Ana Shelf, and the Palos Verdes Fault. It is noteworthy that the Palos Verdes Fault Trend has a solitary discovery, the Beta field (1976), and none of the offshore equivalent of the Santa Monica Thrust has been evaluated. Hence, these two trends are “truncated” in the sense of being very far from completely evaluated. The talk will begin with the chronology of field discoveries in the LAB, evaluate various characteristics of same, and pose some “what if?” scenarios to the LAB’s remaining potential.
Daniel C. Steward - Vice President of Beta Operations at Amplify Energy Corporation
Daniel “Dan” C. Steward is Vice President of Beta Operations at Amplify Energy Corp., responsible for the operation of the offshore Beta field in San Pedro Bay, based in Long Beach. From early 2018 to August of 2019 Dan served as CEO and Co-Founder of start-up Iron Horse Energy, LLC, an acquisition vehicle for mature oil-producing assets in the U.S. onshore. From 1996 to 2017, Dan held various exploration roles of increasing responsibility with Chevron, Noble Energy, Lukoil International Upstream West, and Total E&P, spanning the deep-water Gulf of Mexico (US & MX areas), the west African continental margin, deep-water Black Sea, the Barents Sea, and the San Joaquin basin in Kern County, CA. Dan holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Geology from California State University, Bakersfield and a Master of Business Administration from Rice University.
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MEETING INFORMATION
https://csulb.zoom.us/j/85408142587?pwd=ZEN6aXd3dS95YnJpRDhDYjhGT1BPdz09
Meeting ID: 854 0814 2587
Passcode: 772761