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76 (1932–97) Number of employees. 6,400 (2005) Website. unocal.com (defunct) Union Oil Company of California, and its holding company Unocal Corporation, together known as Unocal / ˈjuːnoʊkæl / was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century.
485. 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 × 106 m 3) of crude oil.
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 ...
The history of oil production in California began in the late 19th century. [ 1] In 1903, California became the leading oil-producing state in the US, and traded the number one position back-and forth with Oklahoma through the year 1930. [ 2] As of 2022, California produced 3% of the crude oil of the nation, behind Texas, New Mexico, North ...
The company was one of the first companies to research developing oil shale. [16] In 1983, Occidental and Ecopetrol, the Colombian state-owned oil company, discovered the giant Caño Limón oilfield in Arauca. [17] In July 1996, the company sold its interest in 3 oilfields in the Congo to the Congolese government for $215 million. [18]
Products. Gasoline, Motor Oil, Kerosene, Lubricants. Associated Oil Company (Flying A) was an American oil and gas company once headquartered in San Francisco, California [1] and served much of the Pacific West Coast, including Hawaii, as well as the Orient [2] and merged with the Tidewater Oil Company in 1938. [3]
Other oil fields are shown in gray. The Kern Front Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in the lower Sierra Nevada foothills in Kern County, California. Discovered in 1912, and with a cumulative production of around 210 million barrels (33,000,000 m 3) of oil, it ranks 29th in size in the state, and is believed to retain approximately ten ...
The South Belridge Oil Field is a large oil field in northwestern Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, about forty miles west of Bakersfield. Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative production of over 2,000 million barrels (320,000,000 m 3) of oil equivalent at the end of 2023, it is the fourth-largest oil field in California, after ...