Wilmington Oil Field
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The Wilmington Oil Field is a prolific petroleum field in Los Angeles County in southern California in the United States. Discovered in 1932, it is the third largest oil field in the United States in
Location of the Wilmington Oil Field within the Los Angeles Basin. Oil fields are shown in light violet.
Terminal Island drilling and production operations in the 1940s.
THUMS oil island White, 2010
Wilmington Oil Field Geologic Cross Section
Huntington Beach Oil Field
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The Huntington Beach Oil Field is part of rich pools of oil found along the West Coast of the United States in the early 1920s stretching from Huntington Beach, California to Santa Barbara, California
Wilmington Oil Field
…to the southeast. The anticline plunges to the northwest and is separated from the Torrance Oil Field by a saddle, and is similarly separated from the Huntington Beach Oil Field to the southeast. A series of transform faults divides the field into separate blocks which form barriers to fluid movement and pressure changes…
Location of the Huntington Beach oilfield in the Los Angeles Basin
Huntington Beach six years after the Huntington A-1 first produced oil in 1920