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We at AOL Real Estate are partial to beach houses that are non-traditional, so naturally, this one caught our fancy. With its boxy, ultramodern exterior, out-of-this-world sculptures, glass light ...
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Oil production began from a man-made offshore island off Seal Beach in 1953. The first strictly offshore oil field in California was the Belmont Offshore Field, discovered in 1948 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from the shore of Seal Beach; production did not begin until 1954 when a man-made island was built in 40 feet of water for drilling and production ...
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The federal government has had no new lease sales for offshore California since 1982. Offshore drilling has continued from existing platforms in state and federal waters. State offshore seabed in California produced 37,400 barrels (5,950 m 3) of oil per day, and federal offshore tracts produced 66,400 barrels (10,560 m 3) of oil per day in ...
The THUMS Islands are a set of four artificial islands in San Pedro Bay off the coast of Long Beach, California. The THUMS Islands were built in 1965 to tap into the East Wilmington Oil Field . The landscaping and sound walls were designed to camouflage the operation and reduce noise, and they are the only decorated oil islands in the United ...
On May 24, 1920, the first Huntington Beach well, the Huntington A-1 3] was brought in as a producing well By October 1921, the field had 59 producing wells. [4] Even with 16 of those 59 wells being idle, the field produced 16,500 barrels of oil equivalent (101,000 GJ) per day, with each well producing from 50 to 200 barrels daily.
California Coastal Access Guide, Seventh Edition, published by the University of California Press in 2014. ISBN 978-0520278172. ISBN 978-0520278172. Compiled by the California Coastal Commission, this guide provides comprehensive details on over 1150 public coastal access points along California's 1271-mile shoreline.