What is the Sunniland Oil Trend?
The Sunniland Trend is a well defined, onshore hydrocarbon-bearing geological layer that stretches from Fort Myers to Miami. Its located on the northeast flank of the South Florida Basin, the largest unexplored geological basin in the lower U.S. Sunniland Trend wells produce from limestone hills at an average depth of more than 2 miles and its fields contain very low amounts of gas, making them low pressure and requiring pumps to bring the oil to the surface. Oil from the Trend is of the heavy-sour variety with a consistency of liquid tar. Its refined products include automobile and aviation fuels, various grades of diesel fuel, lube oils and asphalt. Oil and gas production has been continuous from Southwest Florida oil fields since the Trends first discovery at Sunniland Field in 1943. Over the past 69 years, 14 named discoveries have been made in the Trend and in excess of 118 million barrels of crude oil have been produced from eight commercial oil fields.
