Kern River Oil Field

Kern River Oil Field

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 close to 2 billion barrels (320,000,000 m) 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.^[1] Its estimated remaining reserves, as of the end of 2006, were around 476 million barrels (75,700,000 m³), the second largest in the state. It had 9,183 active wells, the second highest in the state.^[2] The principal operator on the field is Chevron Corporation^[3]

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