Chevron is preparing for flooding at its giant Kern River Oil Field north of Bakersfield by isolating wells, draining pipelines, turning off electrical power and armoring levees with riprap.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed off on a California oil company’s plans to permanently store carbon emissions deep underground to combat global warming — the first proposal ...

All this means trouble for Kern County. As oil production has plunged in the state (see chart), it has fallen in the county, too, from a peak of 256m barrels in 1985 to 90m in 2023.

The 13-year, $68 million effort to put Kern oil permitting in local hands is headed back to the courts after the county Board of Supervisors voted Thursday to revise a massive environmental review and ...

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 ...

Kern County has stayed on top in California in 2022 in terms of Oil and Gas production. However, nationwide, we have moved down. In this video, 23ABC's Ava Kershner breaks down why Kern has moved ...

In the necessary push to transition California to greener options, the state is determined to end oil. And then what? Aryn Braun reports from Bakersfield on what happens when the drilling stops.

The thinking goes that 70 years of experience of injecting steam into oil and gas fields can be transferred to processes such as GeoTES — and it’s hoped the switch will be financially practical.

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 ...

Western Kern's legacy oil fields have gained new interest recently as a place to bury carbon dioxide. ... 4900 California Ave., Suite 100A Bakersfield, CA 93309 Phone: (661) 395-7500 ...

The campaign, intended to advocate for oil industry jobs in central California, is a response to mounting pressure on the industry to account for recent record-high profits by Governor Gavin Newsom.

State regulators could have asked oil companies California Resources Corp. and Aera Energy for an estimated $2.4 billion to guarantee wells are ... including massive oil fields abutting Bakersfield.