Kern River Oil Field
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The Kern River Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley of California, north-northeast of Bakersfield in the lower Sierra foothills. Yielding a cumulative production of
The Kern River Oil Field (purple) in south-central California. Other oil fields are shown in gray.
Kern River drilling rigs, 1923
Kern River Oil Field aerial, 2012.
Kern River Oil Field in 1910
Midway-Sunset Oil Field
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The Midway-Sunset Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California in the United States. It is the largest known oilfield in California and also the largest oil field in t
Kern River Oil Field
…cumulative production of close to 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m3) of oil by the end of 2006, it is the third largest oil field in California, after the Midway-Sunset Oil Field and the Wilmington Oil Field, and the fifth largest in the United States. Its estimated remaining reserves, as of the end of 2006, were around 476…
Midway Field Well 2-6 in 1909, known as the first gusher
Oil wells and storage tanks west of Highway 33, on the Midway-Sunset field
The Lakeview #2 gusher (not the more famous Lakeview #1 gusher), 20 May 1914
Steam pipes emerging from the Midway Sunset Cogeneration Plant to steam the field. Note the hundreds of pumping units in the background; this is among the most densely developed parts of the field.