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May 15, 2024 · Lorelei Oviatt, Kern County’s director of planning and natural resources, has promoted both oil and renewable energy in the county. Brian L. Frank / Grist. Oviatt has permitted almost 20,000 ...
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county’s west side . In 2019, Kern was ranked the #7 oil-producing county in the nation (Figure 1), yielding 119 million bbl of oil and 129 billion CF of gas annually, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. These amounts represent 71% of California’s oil production and 3% of the total U.S. oil production.
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Jul 20, 2022 · Kern County produces 70 percent of the state’s oil. The industry there is responsible for 16,000 jobs. And, most crucially, oil and gas generate nearly one-quarter of the county’s property tax ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Kern County is betting those projects will make it the center of California’s nascent carbon removal and storage industry. The county is already the state’s largest oil producer and a top ...
Jan 16, 2024 · Kern County is betting on the carbon removal industry to save it. Kern County officials are considering a proposal by California Resources Corporation, an oil producer, to build Carbon Terravault 1, a carbon capture and storage facility, near Bakersfield, CA. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Omar Hayat sees the future in a patch of dirt near Bakersfield ...
Kern River Oil Field aerial, 2012. Kern River Oil Field in 1910. 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 3) of oil by the end of 2006, it is the ...
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Mar 12, 2024 · An appeals court ordered Kern County to revise its controversial oil permit ordinance for the second time since 2020. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A California appeals court overturned key parts of Kern County’s controversial oil and gas permitting ordinance last week. It’s the latest blow to the state’s oil industry in a legal saga that has ...
