california oil production, Tag

Last week, when I was writing about the heavy oil fields of California, I used a plot from Jean Laherrère to illustrate the potential ultimate production from the Kern River oilfield as a way to illustrate its potential...

The Kern River field was first found by a wood cutter and his son, after being asked to drill a well on the Means property, who began digging with a 3-inch auger, below a seep on the Kern River shore; they found oil at...

Last week I covered some of the early history of the development of the oil industry in California, and briefly mentioned the difficulties in integrating an ongoing oil industry into a thriving surface community...