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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 Dos Cuadras field is one of many underneath the ocean bottom offshore of Southern California, most of which were discovered in the 1960s and 1970s. All of the field is outside of the 3-mile geographic limit, making it subject to U.S. government rather than California regulation. The four platforms are arranged in a line running from east to ...
A description of the oil and gas seeps offshore southern California can be found in a report on the California Division of Oil and Gas's website. [4] The report is accompanied by a map, showing the locations of offshore petroleum seeps from Point Arguello (north of Santa Barbara) to Mexico. [5]
The California agency that regulates oil and gas operations concludes that a law on well-plugging does not apply to a merger of two giant fossil fuel companies, angering the law's author.
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
Location of the Beverly Hills Oil Field in the context of the Los Angeles Basin and Southern California. Other oil fields are shown in gray. The Beverly Hills Oil Field is a large and currently active oil field underneath part of the US cities of Beverly Hills, California, and portions of the adjacent city of Los Angeles. Discovered in 1900 ...
Location of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field in Southern California. Other oil fields are shown in dark gray. The Brea-Olinda Oil Field is a large oil field in northern Orange County and Los Angeles County, California, along the southern edge of the Puente Hills, about four miles (6 km) northeast of Fullerton, and adjacent to the city of Brea.
McKittrick Oil Field Geologic Cross Section. The predominant geologic feature, and the one that makes the McKittrick field distinctive, is the presence of a huge block of Monterey shale – more than 6 mi (9.7 km) long, approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, and up to 2,000 ft (610 m) thick – which slipped off of the slopes of the adjacent Temblor Range during the Pleistocene and moved eastward ...