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An oil field with dozens of wells. This is the Summerland Oil Field, near Santa Barbara, California, before 1906 Eagle Ford Shale flares visible from space (green and infrared wavelengths), in the arc between "1" and "2", amid cities in southeast Texas in 2012.
The Los Angeles City Oil Field is a large oil field north of Downtown Los Angeles. Long and narrow, it extends from immediately south of Dodger Stadium west to Vermont Avenue, encompassing an area of about four miles (6 km) long by a quarter-mile across. Its former productive area amounts to 780 acres (3.2 km 2).
The field is being developed by BP plc and 25% partner ExxonMobil [1] It is the largest offshore production platform in the Gulf, with a processing capacity of 250 thousand barrels per day (40 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) of oil and 200 million cubic feet per day (5,700,000 m 3 /d) of natural gas, and the field is believed to hold in excess of 1 billion barrels (160 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of oil. [2]
Significant discoveries included the Embrar oil field (1942), the TXL oil field (1944), the Dollarhide oil field (1945), and the Block 31 oil field (1945). [ 35 ] : 200–201, 230–231 [ 36 ] In 1966, the production of the Permian Basin measured 600 million barrels of oil, along with 2.3 trillion cubic ft of gas, which totaled $2 billion.
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in North America, covering 213,543 acres (86,418 ha) and originally contained approximately 25 billion barrels (4.0 × 10 9 m 3 ) of oil. [ 1 ]
Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative oil production of close to 1.5 billion barrels (240,000 dam 3) and a cumulative barrel of oil equivalent (which includes natural gas and condensate) production of 2.2 billion BOE at the end of 2023, it is the fifth-largest oil field in California, and the seventh-most productive field in the United ...