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The formation has for many years yielded oil in areas where it is naturally fractured, and oil companies are investigating ways to make the shale in currently non-productive areas give up the oil through artificial fracturing. [18] Over some large areas, California's geologic layers are complexly folded, making horizontal drilling difficult.
Oil wells on wharves built out over the ocean, Summerland oil field, 1902. Known oil and gas fields in federal waters, offshore California (Minerals Management Service) Offshore oil and gas in California provides a significant portion of the state's petroleum production. Offshore oil and gas has been a contentious issue for decades, first over ...
The Aliso Canyon Oil Field (also Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Field, Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Facility) is an oil field and natural gas storage facility in the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, north of the Porter Ranch neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. Discovered in 1938 and quickly developed ...
Midway Sunset Oil Field Geologic Cross Section The Lakeview #2 gusher (not the more famous Lakeview #1 gusher), 20 May 1914. While the Midway-Sunset field is a large contiguous area covering more than 30 square miles (80 km 2), it comprises 22 identifiable and separately-named reservoirs in six geologic formations, ranging in age from the Pleistocene Tulare Formation (the most recent ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
Phillips 66 will shutter its Los Angeles-area oil refinery complex late next year. The refinery, built in 1919, produces gas, diesel and aviation fuels. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times
A California law that bans drilling new oil wells near places like homes and schools will take effect after the oil industry on Thursday withdrew a referendum from the November ballot asking ...
Today a gallon of gasoline in California today costs $4.61 on average, just over 10 cents lower than the last month and more than 50 cents lower than last year, according to the latest prices from ...