The data represent locations of oil platforms offshore of Southern California.

These data show the location for oil and gas platforms located in the state and federal waters of the United States. Generally, this data set does not show platforms that have been decommissioned through a state or federal Rigs-to-Reefs program; only included herein are structures known to be actively producing hydrocarbon products, or those for which production status could not be verified.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Pacific OCS Platforms as of August 24, 2010

Point location for oil and gas installations in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico are presented. This layer was converted from GIS data acquired from the U. S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) website. We note that platforms are being added and removed continuously, thus regular updates of this data base are required to know the true distribution of platforms. The current layers are non-projected with coordinates in decimal degrees.

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On May 19, 2015, a pipeline owned ruptured in Santa Barbara County, California, near Refugio State Beach. An estimated 21,000 gallons of the oil flowed overland from the break site into the Pacific Ocean and spread across the marine environment. NOAA and our state and federal partners are investigating these impacts and will determine the amount of restoration needed to return the environment to the condition it was in before the spill and to compensate the public for environmental degradation from the time of the spill until recovery. This layer is composed of a series of polygons that represent a derived inter-tidal zone and is divided by the level of oil exposure into zones of High, Medium A, Medium B, and Low. This was determined by data and information collected to support the Refugio Beach Oil Spill NRDA.

This dataset is a digital version of the California Department of Conservation, Geologic Energy Management Division Publication No. TR26, Onshore Oil & Gas Seeps in California, originally published in 1980. TR26 is a report of the research by CalGEM (at the time, DOG) of naturally occurring oil & gas seeps, current and historical. TR26 acknowledges that these natural features are transitory in occurrence; some that existed at some time in the past may now be permanently gone, new ones may come into existence, and some were never discovered. Thus, TR26, and this dataset, must be viewed as historical data, and not a definitive listing of the current number and location of natural oil and gas seeps in California.This feature class aggregates the tabular data presented in TR26, Chapter III by township, range, and section. Each polygon represents the boundaries of a Public Land Survey System Section in which seeps were listed in TR26, and are labeled with the seep count in the Section.,

This data set contains Official Protraction Diagram (OPD) outlines in ESRI Arc/Info export and Arc/View shape file formats for the BOEM Pacific Region. The use of OPD s makes it easier to refer to individual blocks within a region or planning area. Further information on the historic development of OPD s can be found in OCS Report BOEM 99-0006: Boundary Development on the Outer Continental Shelf. Because GIS projection and topology functions can change or generalize coordinates, these GIS files are NOT an OFFICIAL record for the exact OPD boundaries. Only the paper OPD or a digital image of them serve as OFFICIAL records.