The Mesa Oil Field in Santa Barbara County, California. Other oil fields are shown in light gray.
Country
United States
Region
Santa Barbara south coast
Location
Santa Barbara County, California
Offshore/onshore
onshore
Operators
Town-lot field; numerous small operators
Field history
Discovery
1929
Start of development
1929
Start of production
1929
Peak year
1935
Abandonment
1976
Production
Estimated oil in place
3.7 million barrels (~5.0×10^5 t)
Producing formations
Vaqueros Sandstone (Lower Miocene)
The Mesa Oil Field is an abandoned oil field entirely within the city limits of Santa Barbara, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1929, it was quickly developed and quickly declined, as it proved to be but a relatively small accumulation of oil in a single geologic formation. While the field was active in the 1930s, residential development in most of the Mesa neighborhood of Santa Barbara came to a halt. The field included two major productive areas with a total surface extent of only 210 acres (0.85 km2), and produced 3,700,000 barrels (590,000 m3) of oil during its brief lifetime.[1][2]
^"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 2017-05-25. Retrieved August 29, 2010. p. 95.
^Dolman, S.G. Mesa Oil Field: California Division of Oil and Gas, Summary of Operations. 1938. Vol. 24 No. 2. p. 5-14. Available here.
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