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Oil in California’s Monterey Shale
November 18, 2012 | San Diego Union Tribune

According to the Energy Information Administration the Monterey Shale in southern California could hold up to 15.4 billion barrels of oil. On December 12 the Bureau of Land Management will auction some of the first


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