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
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.
East Texas Oil Field
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The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil fi
Midway-Sunset Oil Field
…largest oil field in the country by total oil in place (around 27 billion barrels of mostly heavy oil), though Alaska's Prudhoe Bay Oil Field and the East Texas Oil Field have larger total production values of over 13 billion barrels and 5.4 billion barrels respectively compared to Midway-Sunset which has produced nearly…
Oil Field Scene, East Texas c. 1930
A depiction of a muddy Main Street at the East Texas Oil Museum, in Kilgore, Texas