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Historical produced water chemistry data compiled for the Santa Maria Valley Oil Field, Santa Barbara County, California

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1961-09-13
End Date
2020-04-29

Citation

Metzger, L.F., 2022, Historical produced water chemistry data compiled for the Santa Maria Valley Oil Field, Santa Barbara County, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P97N9NSD.

Summary

This digital dataset contains historical geochemical and other information for 89 samples of produced water from 84 sites in the Santa Maria Valley Oil Field in Santa Barbara County, California. Produced water is a term used in the oil industry to describe water that is produced from oil wells as a byproduct along with the oil and gas. Additionally, 3 samples from 3 sites that represent source water used in support of oil production were included in this dataset, for a total of 92 samples and 87 sites, respectively. The locations from which these historical samples have been collected include 27 wells, 2 reservoirs, 10 storage tanks, and 49 unidentifiable sample sources. Well depth, perforation depths, and (or) depths referred to on [...]

Contacts

Project Chief :
Matthew K Landon
Point of Contact :
Loren F Metzger
Originator :
Loren F Metzger
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Metadata Contact :
Loren F Metzger
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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SantaMariaValley_PW_Summary_Data.xlsx 445.54 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
SantaMariaValley_PW_Summary_Data.zip 5.97 KB application/zip
SantaMariaValley_PW_Geochemistry.xlsx 548.65 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
SantaMariaValley_PW_Geochemistry.zip 16.05 KB application/zip
SantaMariaValley_PW_Data-Dictionary.xlsx 438.8 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
SantaMariaValley_PW_Data-Dictionary.zip 7.12 KB application/zip

Purpose

The data were compiled by the USGS California Oil, Gas, and Groundwater (COGG) project as part of the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Oil and Gas Regional Monitoring Program. The historical data were compiled to determine potential contrasts and overlap in water chemistry between water from oil-bearing formations and groundwater at regional scales. These historical data are intended to be used to broadly characterize the range and central tendencies of produced water chemistry in comparison with groundwater from water wells. Because the collection and analysis methods and circumstances under which the historical samples were collected cannot be fully known, the intent is that the historical samples will be used in grouped analysis including many sample results rather than detailed interpretation of each individual sample, which may be affected by unknown sampling and analysis conditions. Caution should be used in basing interpretations of the data on single sample results.

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