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CalGEM also maintains a database of active wells, expired wells, surveyed lands and leases on California land, coastal waters (0–3 miles) and federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). When a well is no longer needed, either because the oil or gas reservoir becomes depleted, or because no oil or gas was found (called a dry-hole), the well is ...
In 2021, CalGEM proposed prohibiting new oil wells and facilities within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other sensitive locations.
CalGEM and the governor’s office defended the environmental review for the drilling permits, which concluded that a well as deep as 1,200 feet or within 3,600 feet from a home in Derby Acres ...
Oil wells on wharves built out over the ocean, Summerland oil field, 1902. Known oil and gas fields in federal waters, offshore California (Minerals Management Service) Offshore oil and gas in California provides a significant portion of the state's petroleum production. Offshore oil and gas has been a contentious issue for decades, first over ...
Three Occidental Petroleum active oil wells (using nodding donkeys); south of Buttonwillow, California. The Elk Hills Oil Field (formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1) is a large oil field in western Kern County, in the Elk Hills of the San Joaquin Valley, California in the United States, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Bakersfield.
Under the orphan well law, CRC may have had to obtain up to $2.4 billion in bonds, based on the average price to plug wells. CalGEM "characterized it as simple stock purchase, like the equivalent ...
The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles County, California, is the 18th-largest oil field in the state and the second-most productive in the Los Angeles Basin.Discovered in 1924 and in continuous production ever since, in 2012 it produced approximately 2.8 million barrels of oil from some five hundred wells.
California will use the funding to plug and remediate 206 high-risk orphaned oil and gas wells and decommission 47 attendant production facilities with about 70,000 feet of associated pipelines.