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In areas where pumpjacks bob along the banks of the Kern River, Chevron has been shutting down oil wells, pipelines and electrical power. Chevron scrambles to batten down oil fields amid threat of ...
The Kern River Oil Field (purple) in south-central California. Other oil fields are shown in gray. Kern River drilling rigs, 1923 Kern River Oil Field aerial, 2012. Kern River Oil Field in 1910. The Kern River Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley of California, north-northeast of Bakersfield in the lower ...
Dec. 5—The Sierra Club ratcheted up pressure on Kern County's petroleum industry Tuesday by releasing a contentious report saying California policymakers should force oil companies to spend more ...
Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta is backing environmentalists in a legal fight over the Kern River, after thousands of fish died when the river dried up. State backs environmentalists after water shutoff ...
The oil field is northeast of the city of Bakersfield, between the Kern River and Poso Creek, in the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The main access to the field is from the south, by way of Round Mountain Road, which also passes through the huge and much more densely developed Kern River Oil Field. Elevations on the Round Mountain Field ...
A sudden shutoff of water supplies has dried up the Kern River in Bakersfield, ... The city said in a Sept. 3 news release that its water department was "reducing water flows" in the river to ...
Kern Front Oil Field Structure Map. The Kern Front Field contains two major producing units, the Etchegoin Formation and the Chanac, both sedimentary, but unconformably overlain. The Etchegoin is a Pliocene marine sand, and the Chanac is a Pliocene non-marine sand. Each is interbedded with silts and clays, and the sands have a high porosity ...
Deputies responded to an emergency call in the Ant Canyon area near Kernville around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said in a news release. The five kayakers lost their equipment after they were ...