Urban Oilfield

By Avalon Energy Services | March 5, 2015

Los Angeles is an urban oilfield. Within its limits are more than 50 oil fields, 3,000 active oil wells, and numerous tar pits (actually asphalt seeps). During the 1920s, a quarter of the world’s crude oil production came from California, and the Los Angeles Basin was responsible for a large portion of that production. It…

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