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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 ...
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.
The super-giant Midway-Sunset field has produced nearly 4,000,000,000 barrels (640,000,000 m 3) of crude oil, most of it heavy gravity (13-14 degrees API). Enhanced oil recovery operations in the form of steam production and injection have been used on the thick viscous crude oil of the Midway-Sunset field since the mid-to-late-1960s.
1903: Midway-Sunset Field and Kern River production makes California the top oil producing state. 1904: Kern River produces 17.2 million bbls of oil, exceeding annual Texas production. 1905: Well, Hill 4 has the first successful use of well cementing in Lompoc Oil Field.
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 California, after the Midway-Sunset Oil Field and the Wilmington Oil Field, and the fifth largest in the United States. [1]
The permits are for 10 new wells to be drilled by Berry Petroleum in the region’s Midway Sunset oil extraction field. ... Since Newsom signed a law to ban new oil and gas wells near homes and ...
Lakeview Gusher on the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California, US of 1910 is believed to be the largest-ever U.S. gusher. At its peak, more than 100,000 barrels (16,000 m 3) of oil per day flowed out, reaching as high as 200 feet (61 m) in the air.
Jul. 23—A jury trial is about to begin in a years-long dispute between two Kern County oil companies accusing each other of damaging their property and limiting production on a scale of tens of ...