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 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.

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 ...

Serious oil field violations flagged as many as four years ago by state regulators in Kern County remain unresolved, ... 4900 California Ave., Suite 100A Bakersfield, CA 93309 Phone: (661) 395-7500 ...

Will storing CO2 in old oil fields ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signed off on a California oil ... a depleted oil reservoir about 25 miles outside of downtown Bakersfield.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.