Oil and Gas Developments in Atlantic Coastal Plain and Outer Continental Shelf in 1989

Abstract

Oil and gas exploration on the Atlantic coastal plain has been focused on the buried Mesozoic rift basins. In 1989, Texaco drilled an unsuccessful new-field wildcat in the Taylorsville basin in Virginia. Also in 1989, 5 wells were drilled into rift basins and coastal plain sediments overlying the basins in Georgia. There has been no exploration drilling on the Atlantic outer continental shelf (OCS) since the completion of Shell's deepwater drilling program in 1983-1984. Since then, geophysical activity has continued at a low level. There is no oil or gas production from the Atlantic OCS or Atlantic coastal plain outside the state of Florida.