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The Aliso Canyon Oil Field (also Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Field, Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Facility) is an oil field and natural gas storage facility in the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, north of the Porter Ranch neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. Discovered in 1938 and quickly developed ...
Aliso Canyon SS 25 wellhead, December 17, 2015. Note subsidence craters at center, apparently from the attempts to plug the leaking well. The Aliso Canyon gas leak (also called Porter Ranch gas leak [1] and Porter Ranch gas blowout [2]) was a massive methane leak in the Santa Susana Mountains near the neighborhood of Porter Ranch in the city of Los Angeles, California.
The oil giant was hired by Southern California Gas Co. to end the blowout. It couldn't get the job done.
Aliso Canyon, which serves more than 11 million customers and provides fuel to 17 natural gas-fired power plants, will be reviewed for permanent closure when the "forecasted peak day demand for ...
California's Public Utilities Commission voted for a plan that could eventually shutter the Aliso Canyon gas storage site but some residents want swifter action.
It was the fourth such facility for the utility, after La Goleta near Santa Barbara, Playa del Rey in Los Angeles, and Aliso Canyon north of the San Fernando Valley, and the third which had been an oil field. The Honor Rancho field was the first storage facility acquired by SoCalGas where they also owned the rights to the oil produced. [5]
SoCalGas' Playa del Rey storage field may pose a far greater threat than Aliso Canyon, site of a record-setting gas leak.
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