[Island Chris]

Hi Tony and Brian,

Jim Boles sent the following email to Tony and I and said OK to post. UCSB professor Jordan Clark may also be interested.

Tony, can you post the email you sent Boles? I'm interested.

Chris

On 11/1/2014 11:16 AM, James Boles wrote:
> Gentleman: I did some quick research on the possibility of oil
> occurrences in the Towsley Canyon area, using Volume 2 of California
> Oil and Gas fields from the Calif Div Oil and Gas. Turns out this area
> is part of the Newhall oil field, and is referred to as the Towsley
> Canyon area. Native Americans used to soak up oil from seeps in the
> canyon with blankets and oil was mined in the area prior to 1876. The
> discovery well was prior to 1893 and peak production was in 1955
> (presumably its abandoned today?) Production is along a tightly
> folded, NW-SE trending anticline referred, the Pico anticline. The> is formation water associated with that oil field (formation water in
> this part of the Newhall field is reported as 4300 TDS, which is
> relatively fresh for oil field water). The sudden appearance of the
> anticline is cut by the Climax fault, which extends to the surface
> (source of leakage?). Thus my guess is that this "new" water reported

> oily water at the surface is probably from movement with buoyant
> hydrocarbons (gas charged?) along faults and/or leakage from old well
> casing. jim