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CalGEM also maintains a database of active wells, expired wells, surveyed lands and leases on California land, coastal waters (0–3 miles) and federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). When a well is no longer needed, either because the oil or gas reservoir becomes depleted, or because no oil or gas was found (called a dry-hole), the well is ...
It also requests that CalGEM be forced to vacate its approvals of the new wells and not grant any new well approvals unless it “complies with its obligations under CEQA and the California Public ...
The first well to find oil was completed September 28, 1924 by Standard Oil Company, one of the predecessors of Chevron Corporation. Development of the field commenced rapidly but in a more orderly way than was usual for a Los Angeles Basin oil field. [17] Peak production occurred less than a year after the first well was installed.
The California agency that regulates oil and gas operations concludes that a law on well-plugging does not apply to a merger of two giant fossil fuel companies, angering the law's author.
Discovery well of Kern River Oilfield California State Historical Landmark reads: NO. 290 DISCOVERY WELL OF KERN RIVER OILFIELD - Oil was discovered at 70 feet in 1899, when Tom Means persuaded Roe Elwood and Frank Wiseman, aided by Jonathan, Bert, Jed, and Ken Elwood, George Wiseman, and John Marlowe, to dig here for oil.
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; 1936 - First seismic exploration in California discovers Ten Section field near Bakersfield.
The official "discovery" well, however, was drilled by the Standard Oil Company ("Hay No. 1") in January, 1919. [5] By 1912 the field's capacity was considered to be significant enough that President William Howard Taft , concerned about the long-term availability of petroleum for the U.S. Navy , designated the region as the nation's first ...
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