Book Description

Proposed OCS Sale No. 68 includes a maximum offering of 218 tracts, with a total area of about 445,190 hectares (1,112,975 acres). The tracts are offshore Southern California, between 3 and 84 geographic miles offishore and in water depths from about 46 to 1500 m deep (150 to 4,900 feet). Tracts comprise three subareas: the Santa Barbara Channel; Inner Banks (containing the Anacapa Island area, Santa Monica Basin and the San Pedro area); Outer Banks (containing the area south of Santa Rosa Island, San Nicolas Basin, Dall Bank, southeast Tanner Bank and Santa Tomas Knoll). There are existing Federal oil and gas leases in each of these three subareas.