The project is designed to: -Promote development of both discovered and undiscovered oil reserves contained within algal mounds on the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, and Navaho native controlled lands. - Promote the use of advanced technology and expand the technical capability of the Native American oil exploration corporations by direct assistance in the current project and dissemination of technology to other tribes. - Develop the most cost-effective approach to using non-invasive seismic imaging to reduce the risk in exploration and development of algal mound reservoirs on surrounding Native American lands. - Characterize the internal structure and lithology of both the Towaoc and Roadrunner reservoirs to optimize future development in these reservoirs. - Quantify the potential benefit of acquiring three-component data in the exploration for algal mounds. - Quantify the potential benefit of applying advanced processing technologies to conventional 3-D seismic data. -Identify any undiscovered algal mounds (if they exist) within the area of seismic coverage.