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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 ...
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A sudden shutoff of water supplies has dried up the Kern River in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish on the parched riverbed. 'It's really sad': River dries up abruptly in Bakersfield ...
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 ...
It passes through some of Kern County's most famous oil fields, including the Midway-Sunset, the third-largest oil field in the United States; the Buena Vista Oil Field; and runs adjacent to the Elk Hills Oil Field, formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, infamous as one of the two illicit leases – the other being Teapot Dome – that ...
The field itself is spread out into five named areas, several of which consist of multiple discontiguous productive regions. The Main Area is the largest, consisting of one pool about 5 miles (8.0 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.80 km) across, extending north to south from Poso Creek to Kern River, and including Round Mountain.
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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 ...