[ckilmer]

I find it hard to believe that the only potential out west is that tiny sliver on the southern California coast.

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This is an example of what the ground looks like in california. It is very faulted so you can't really do any horizontal drilling.

[JimSEA]

Quite a tortured set of folds. Classic. Trying to backtrack the various stress that caused that gives me a headache.