The Ellwood Oil Field and South Ellwood Offshore Oil Field. Other oil fields are shown in gray.
Ellwood Oil Field (also spelled "Elwood")[1] and South Ellwood Offshore Oil Field are a pair of adjacent, partially active oil fields adjoining the city of Goleta, California, about twelve miles (19 km) west of Santa Barbara, largely in the Santa Barbara Channel. A richly productive field in the 1930s, the Ellwood Oil Field was important to the economic development of the Santa Barbara area. A Japanese submarine shelled the area during World War II. It was the first direct naval bombardment of the continental U.S. since the Civil War, causing an invasion scare on the West Coast.
^Several prominent and public sources, including the California Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, use the "Elwood" spelling in their database and publications. The fields are named after 19th-century rancher and olive grower Ellwood Cooper, and many other local place names use the "Ellwood" spelling.
EllwoodOilField (also spelled "Elwood") and South Ellwood Offshore OilField are a pair of adjacent, partially active oilfields adjoining the city of...
the Santa Barbara Channel and had once stopped at the EllwoodOilField to take on a cargo of oil. However, after graduating from the Imperial Japanese...
environmental protection. Notable offshore fields include the EllwoodOilField and the Wilmington OilField, both of which are partially onshore and partially...
area of about three square kilometres, within the Offshore South EllwoodOilField and stretching from the coastline southward more than three kilometers...
Imperial Japanese Army on February 23, 1942, in an attack on the Ellwoodoilfield, which is west of the city of Santa Barbara in California. This attack...
discovery of oil west of Santa Barbara led to the development of EllwoodOilField. This caused the city to be bracketed on east and west with oilfields, the...
submarine I-17 surfaced near Santa Barbara, California, and shelled EllwoodOilfield in Goleta. Although damage was minimal (only $500 in property damage...
that it was worth looking more carefully for oil in the vicinity. The discovery of the giant EllwoodOilField in 1929 in a similar geographic setting –...
discovered in offshore oilfields, such as the South EllwoodOilField in the Santa Barbara Channel, and the Point Arguello Field in the Santa Maria Basin...
1946. On February 23, 1942, the Japanese bombed the EllwoodOilField. The EllwoodOilField and oil refinery are located in Goleta, California in the Santa...
Rancho Dos Pueblos (1842). Near the end of the 1920s, an oil boom started at the EllwoodOilField resulting in additional drilling along the coast. During...
built in 1942 in response to the Bombardment of Ellwood, a Japanese submarine attack on the EllwoodOilField. The park also include a primitive campground...
this time, the large EllwoodOilField several miles west of the site was discovered and developed, as well as the small Mesa OilField near downtown Santa...
very high alert, especially after the February, 1942 shelling of EllwoodOilField, two miles to the west, as well as the raid against Dutch Harbor in...
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built in 1942 in response to the Bombardment of Ellwood, a Japanese submarine attack on the EllwoodOilField; located on the west side of the Ventura River...
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