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  2. California oil and gas industry - Wikipedia

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    1929: Blowout prevention equipment becomes mandatory on oil and gas wells drilled in California. 1929: First well logs in California run by Shell in a well near Bakersfield (Kern County). 1930: Deepest well in the world is Standard Mascot #1, rotary drilled to 9,629 feet at Midway-Sunset. 1931, 1939: voters reject referendum on oil conservation

  3. Kern River Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    The Kern River Oil Field covers an area of 10,750 acres (43.5 km 2) in a rough oval extending over the low hills north-northeast of Bakersfield, hills which are now almost completely barren except for oil rigs, drilling pads and associated equipment. This area is the densest operational oil development in the state of California: Midway-Sunset ...

  4. Years after a Newsom order, California is finally set to ban ...

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    Roughly 13% of California oil and gas wells have been fracked at least once. Overall, permitted fracking operations accounted for just 2% of statewide oil production in 2021.

  5. Offshore oil and gas in California - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. History of oil in California through 1930 - Wikipedia

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    With the new oil supplies from California—along with increased oil production in Texas and Pennsylvania—the price decreased from $9.60 per barrel in 1860 to $0.25 per barrel in 1895. [ 18 ] American oil companies including Union Oil Company became concerned with this development because oil prices had fallen too low for oil companies to ...

  7. Honor Rancho Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    The Honor Rancho Oil Field (also Honor Rancho Natural Gas Storage Field, Honor Rancho Underground Storage Facility) is an approximately 600-acre oil field and natural gas storage facility in Los Angeles County, California, on the northern border of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, near the junction of Interstate 5 and westbound California State Route 126.

  8. Inglewood Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles County, California, is the 18th-largest oil field in the state and the second-most productive in the Los Angeles Basin.Discovered in 1924 and in continuous production ever since, in 2012 it produced approximately 2.8 million barrels of oil from some five hundred wells.

  9. Lost Hills Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    While only the 18th-largest oil field in California in size, in total remaining reserves it ranks sixth, with the equivalent of over 110 million barrels (17,000,000 m 3) producible reserves still in the ground, according to the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (Chevron Corp., the principal operator, estimates considerably more oil in the ground).