Chevron is preparing for flooding at its giant Kern River Oil Field north of Bakersfield by ... the 10,750-acre oil field produces less than 3% of the crude oil consumed each year in California, ...

Company to Ship First Commercially Marketed Oil SalesSince Resumption of Operations in February Rig Scheduled for First Exploratory Well on Utah Asset Bakersfield, CA, April 24, 2024 (GLOBE ...

A power plant at the Elk Hills oil field near Taft, California. The oil field’s owner, ... Bakersfield College debuted a new course on the subject, “ENER B52NC, ...

Part of the solution to California’s ambitious decarbonization goals may, ironically enough, be found in the state’s oil patch. On a 560-acre plot of land in a dusty portion of the San Joaquin ...

Kern County is trying to allow oil drilling in unincorporated areas of the county once more after the courts struck down the ...

The federal government is looking to reopen oil and gas leasing on public lands throughout Central California.

CalGEM officials announced that as of Tuesday, 38 wells previously found to have methane leaks or high-pressure build-up near several Bakersfield neighborhoods have now been repaired.

According to the California Air Resources board, the state produces some of the world’s lowest carbon intensity oil, with Bakersfield and Kern County fields coming in around 8 grams of CO2 ...

Oil companies will have a harder time passing off old California oil and gas wells to smaller firms that can’t afford to clean them up, under a measure Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Saturday.

Omar Hayat sees the future in a patch of dirt near Bakersfield, California, where oil was discovered more than a century ago. That discovery paved the way for Kern County’s lucrative petroleum ...

A person looks over the Chevron Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield on May 9, 2023. The California Independent Petroleum Association said it would drop a ballot challenge to a law banning oil ...