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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bakersfield-based Aera Energy LLC, California’s second-largest oil producer, has sold to California Resources Corp., whose headquarters are in Long Beach. This file photo was taken in early 2022.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — The first discovery well in the Kern River Fields was drilled in 1899, now according to a new report, it's a $20 billion industry. According to California State ...

California’s long term decline in oil production started in 1985 and accelerated in the 2010s. Upswings in the price of oil haven’t reversed the trend, Carbon Tracker said. Yet regulators have ...

Explore the environmental and economic effects of California’s oil imports. Learn how Senate Bill 13 seeks to ensure transparency and accountability.

A new California law just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to close loopholes that have allowed oil drillers to walk away from wells that are no longer profitable but remain harmful.