...Karen Bybee This article, written by Assistant Technology Editor Karen Bybee, contains highlights of paper SPE 94390, “Offshore California Facility Decommissioning: Past, Present, Future,” by P.B. Mount II, SPE, and M. Voskanian, SPE, California State Lands Commission, prepared for the 2005 SPE/EPA...

... heavy-oil fields. Coincidental with this shift in market conditions. a number of heavy-oil fields were discovered offshore California and in the Mediterranean Sea. Heavy-Oil Characteristics. Heavy oil usually indicates a crude with a gravity less than 20 degrees API [0.93 g/cm3]. There are, however, few...