Not to be confused with Beverly Hills Oil Field or Salt Lake Oil Field.
Los Angeles City Oil Field
The Los Angeles City Oil Field in the Los Angeles Basin of southern California. Other oil fields are shown in light gray.
Country
United States
Region
Los Angeles Basin
Location
Los Angeles County, California
Offshore/onshore
onshore
Operators
Numerous ()
Field history
Discovery
prehistoric
Start of development
1857
Start of production
1890
Peak year
1901
Production
Current production of oil
3.5 barrels per day (~170 t/a)
Year of current production of oil
2019
Estimated oil in place
0 million barrels (~0 t)
Producing formations
Puente (Miocene)
The Los Angeles City Oil Field is a large oil field north of Downtown Los Angeles. Long and narrow, it extends from immediately south of Dodger Stadium west to Vermont Avenue, encompassing an area of about four miles (6 km) long by a quarter-mile across. Its former productive area amounts to 780 acres (3.2 km2).
Discovered in 1890, and made famous by Edward Doheny's successful well in 1892, the field was once the top producing oil field in California, accounting for more than half of the state's oil in 1895. In its peak year of 1901, approximately 200 separate oil companies were active on the field, which is now entirely built over by dense residential and commercial development. As of 2011 only one oil well remains active – behind a fence on South Mountain View Avenue one block east of Alvarado Street in the Westlake neighborhood, producing about 3.5 barrels per day (0.56 m3/d).[1] The fortunes made during development of the field led directly to the discovery and exploitation of other fields in the Los Angeles Basin.[2] Of the 1,250 wells once drilled on the field, and the forest of derricks that once covered the low hills north of Los Angeles from Elysian Park west, little above-ground trace remains.
^"2008 Report of the state oil & gas supervisor" (PDF). Department of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources. California Department of Conservation ("DOGGR 2009"). 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 25, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2011. p. 94.
^Crowder, R.E. Los Angeles City Oil Field: California Division of Oil and Gas, Summary of Operations. 1961. Vol. 47 No. 1, p. 70
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