This salt complex, more than 27 mi long and up to 13 mi wide, may be part of a much longer salt feature that extends both east and west. The mother salt bed of probably Late Triassic-Early Jurassic age is buried presently to depths of 40,000-50,000 ft, whereas the tops of the individual domes along the trend rise to depths only 2,000-3,000 ft below the surface.

Production to date on this three-field complex has been in excess of 700 million bbl of oil. Oil reserves are estimated to range from 750 million to 1 billion bbl. In addition, significant gas reserves are present.

Accumulations occur in Pleistocene sandstone as shallow as 1,000 ft to late Miocene sandstone deeper than 20,000 ft. A wide variety of traps is found, including superdomal arching shale and salt truncations, stratigraphic traps, and those associated with faults.

Production was discovered on this complex in 1930, and in 1966 about 75 million bbl was produced.

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