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Mountain View Oil Field
Oil field in Kern County, California, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mountain View Oil Field is a large, mature, but still-productive oil field in Kern County, California, in the United States, in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin Valley southeast of Bakersfield. It underlies the town of Arvin, as well as some smaller agricultural communities. The field is spread out across a large area, covering just under 8 square miles (21 km2), with wells and storage facilities widely dispersed throughout the area, scattered among working agricultural fields of broccoli and carrots as well as citrus orchards. Discovered in 1933, it has produced over 90 million barrels (14,000,000 m3) of oil in its lifetime, and although declining in production is one of the few inland California fields in which new oil is still being discovered.[1]
Mountain View Oil Field | |
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![]() The Mountain View Oil Field in central California. Other oil fields are shown in dark gray. | |
Country | United States |
Region | San Joaquin Basin |
Location | Kern County, California |
Offshore/onshore | onshore |
Operators | Atlantic, Pyramid, Sunray, The Termo, numerous others |
Field history | |
Discovery | 1933 |
Start of development | 1933 |
Start of production | 1933 |
Peak year | 1936 |
Production | |
Current production of oil | 437.5 barrels per day (~21,800 t/a) |
Year of current production of oil | 2008 |
Estimated oil in place | 0.792 million barrels (~1.08×10 |
Producing formations | Walker (Oligocene), Santa Margarita (Miocene), Fruitvale (Miocene), Olcese (Miocene), Round Mountain (Miocene), Freeman-Jewett (Miocene), Chanac (Pliocene-Miocene), Kern River (Pleistocene), unnamed schist (Jurassic) |
As of the beginning of 2009, the field had numerous operators, unlike some of the larger, monolithic fields such as the Kern River field to the north, which is entirely owned by Chevron Corporation. Only independent oil companies operate on the Mountain View Field. Of the 175 active wells on the field in 2009, the largest operator was Atlantic Oil Company, with 49 producing wells; the second largest was Sunray Petroleum, with 22. Overall there were 23 separate operators, one of the most of any field in California.[2]