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1929: Blowout prevention equipment becomes mandatory on oil and gas wells drilled in California. 1929: First well logs in California run by Shell in a well near Bakersfield (Kern County). 1930: Deepest well in the world is Standard Mascot #1, rotary drilled to 9,629 feet at Midway-Sunset. 1931, 1939: voters reject referendum on oil conservation
California aquifers, excerpted from map in Ground Water Atlas of the United States (USGS, 2000): Lavender is "other" for "rocks that generally yield less than 10 gal/min to wells"; dark green-blue (3) are the California coastal basin aquifers, bright-turquoise blue (7) is the Central Valley aquifer system, flat cobalt-blue (1) down south is Basin and Range aquifers
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 ...
California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). 1,472 pp. Beverly Hills Oil Field information pp. 46–50. PDF file available on CD from www.consrv.ca.gov. (As of August 2009, not available for download on their FTP site.) California Department of Conservation, Oil and Gas Statistics, Annual Report ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California . Dams in service
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The removal of the four dams, which were built without tribes’ consent between 1912 and the 1960s, has cleared the way for California to return more than 2,800 acres of ancestral land to the ...
The Rio Vista Gas Field is a large natural gas field in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in northern California, adjacent to Rio Vista, California. Discovered in 1936, and in continuous operation since, it has produced over 3.6 trillion cubic feet (100 km 3 ) of gas in its lifetime, and retains an estimated reserve of approximately 330 ...