Elk Hills Oil Field
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The Elk Hills Oil Field 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. Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative production of close to 1.3 billion barrels (210,000 dam3) of oil at the end of 2006, it is the fifth-largest oil field in California, and the seventh-most productive field in the United States.
The Elk Hills Oil Field in California, (purple). Other oil fields are shown in gray.
The Elk Hills Oil Field, west of the California Aqueduct.
Three Occidental Petroleum active oil wells (using nodding donkeys); south of Buttonwillow, California
San Joaquin Valley
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The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. Famed as a major breadbasket, the San Joaquin Valley is an important source of food, producing a significant part of California's agricultural output.
San Joaquin Valley
Millerton Lake, supplied by the Madera Canal and Friant-Kern Canal.
César Chávez at a United Farmworkers rally, 1974
Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977