Global Oils Monitor - Work is in progress
We have reviewed over 340 oils in detail worldwide, which are listed here:
UKCS
Mupe Bay oil seep,
marine Jurassic derived oil
Coalbrookdale Tar Tunnel, seep
Terrestrially derived Carboniferous (coal) oil
Northern North Sea, Q22
Lybster, produced oil Lacustrine derived Devonian oil
Breagh condensate– marine. Lr Carboniferous
Spain
Cala Boix, Ibiza, tar stranding Waxy mature oil
Lanzarote tar stranding
Fuerteventura tar stranding Siguenza asphalt Campo de Ayoluengo,
"Burgos" produced oil
Russia
Pechora Sea, produced oil
Cuba
North coast produced oil Restricted marine, Jurassic
Dominican Republic
Higuey, eastern Dominican
Republic active seep
Anza Basin, Maleno & Hirguito
exhumed reservoir / seeps
Perdenales, asphalt seep
Nicaragua
San Cayetano, active seep
San Bartolo, produced oil
Barbados
Greys Hill, produced oil
Woodbine, produced oil
Cretaceous marine oils
Curacao
Saba Bank, oil show
St Lucia
Tar stranding
India
Cambay basin - produced oil
Bombay High - produced oils
Seychelles
Mahé Island tar strandings
Praslin Island, tar strandings
Aldabra island tar strandings
Reith Bank #1, oil shows
Owen Bank #1 oil shows
Seagull Shoals #1 oil shows
Coevity Island tar stranding
Lower Mesozoic restricted marine oils
Madagascar
Manandaza, produced oil
Bemolanga, produced oil
Tsimororo, produced oil
Permo-Triassic lacustrine oils
Sahamalaza Bay, tar stranding
Mal #1 oil show
South Africa
Durban basin – oil show
Outeniqua basin - produced oils
Mozambique
Pemba, seep
Ponta Unifundo, seep
Inhaminga, seep
Comoros
Tar strandings
Tanzania
Wingayongo, seep
Nyuni Island, produced condensate
Songo Songo, produced condensate
Pemba Island, seep & oil show
Lower Mesozoic restricted marine oil Msimbati, seep
Manzi Bay#1 condensates
Kenya
Wajr Tarbaj Hill, oil seep
Maradadi, show
Kapini, show
Pandangua, show
Uganda
Mputa, produced oil
Kingfisher, produced oil
Waraga, produced oil
Mputa, produced oil
Kibuku, produced oil
Paara, produced oil
Kibiro, seep
Tertiary lacustrine oils
Indonesia
North Sumatra basin, produced condensates Lower Tertiary lacustrine condensate
North Sumatra, Omblin Basin,
Sianamar #1, produced oil,
Kolok #1 oil
Java Sea oils
Sulawesi seeps
Tertiary lacustrine oils
Irian Jaya, produced oil
Reviewed over 340 oils in detail worldwide to include collected oil seeps and shows the Western Indian Ocean, India, Central America and several oil families from Europe and S.E. Asia
Kolok #1, Omblin Basin, North Sumatra. WWII borehole that still flows today.
Duaphine Bay - Oil sheen & tar balls have been recorded over a decade from this beach
Tar standing NE Lanzarote
Tar stranding NW Lanzarote
North coast Cuba, nodding donkeys at the roadside / on the cliff tops
Exhumed oil field, Dominican Republic
Oil seep, Dominican Republic
Ayoluengo Oilfeild, northern Spain, now shut in. Spain imports 99.6% of its oil needs. Wind farm in the background
First discovered in 1964 at its peak Ayoluengo oil field produced 5,000bbls per day and to date 15 million bbls have been produced, some 15% of the estimated reserves