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  2. Kern River Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    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 Sierra foothills. Yielding a cumulative production of close to 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m 3) of oil by the end of 2006, it is the third largest oil field in ...

  3. Kern Front Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Lakeview Gusher - Wikipedia

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    The Lakeview Gusher was an eruption of hydrocarbons from a pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California, in 1910.Caused by a blowout, it created the largest accidental oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing an estimated 9 million barrels (1.4 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of crude oil.

  5. Environmental report calls for accelerating oil well plugging

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    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 ...

  6. Court rulings' impact on Kern oil permitting remains fuzzy - AOL

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    Jun. 12—Court rulings released Tuesday may have set back Kern's efforts to resume over-the-counter oil permitting, but it remains to be seen just how far back and what actions could be necessary ...

  7. Mountain View Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    The Mountain View Oil Field is a large, mature, but still-productive oil field in Kern County, California, in the United States, in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin Valley southeast of Bakersfield. It underlies the town of Arvin, as well as some smaller agricultural communities.

  8. Midway-Sunset Oil Field - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. File:Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920 (CHS ...

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    Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920 Photograph of a Taft oil well blow-out in Kern County, ca. 1920. The well was owned by Standard Oil (10-36. 31-23). The blow-out consisted of 20,000 barrels of oil. At least 6 other derricks are visible in the hilly distance behind the oil gushing upward out of the derrick. Pipes lay in a pile at ...

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