Chevron Corporation is taking steps to avoid an oil spill at its Kern River Oil Field in the event of catastrophic flooding. In areas where pumpjacks bob along the shoulders of the Kern River ...

Countywide, Kern produces 400,000 ... “Taft sits atop the Midway Sunset field,” said Don Maxwell, a museum volunteer and descendant of two generations of oil workers. “Taft was like an ...

Thousands of gallons of crude petroleum began spouting out of the ground near a part of Chevron's steam injection well network in a Kern County oil field over the weekend, prompting a new cleanup ...

A Chevron oil well has leaked nearly 800,000 gallons of crude petroleum and water in Kern County over the last two months, prompting state regulators to hit the San Ramon-based energy company with a ...

This is detrimental for Kern County, California's most oil-rich county and where four of the nation's top-producing oil fields are located and seven of the top ten taxpayers are all oil-related ...

Prior to that, records show no new drilling had been approved in Kern oil fields since the four given to E&B Natural Resources on May 12, 2023. The situation is fairly novel: Although Berry ...

In the midst of continuing drought, and angry debate about fracking, a Chevron Company oil field is an unlikely source of water. But there’s a field near Bakersfield that produces 10 times more water ...

Occidental Petroleum Corp. on Wednesday announced its discovery of a large oil field in Kern County, a find experts say could boost local employment, increase tax revenues and reduce the state’s ...

Jun. 24—Serious oil field violations flagged as many as four years ago by state regulators in Kern County remain unresolved, according to a new analysis of publicly available data that raises ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Three years of stable work in our oil fields. That's what Mid Cal Labor Solutions is hearing from our local oil companies. Two of the main jobs listed in need are welders ...