The Russell Ranch Oil Field in central and southern California. Other oil fields are shown in dark gray.
Country
United States
Region
Cuyama Valley
Location
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo County, California
Offshore/onshore
onshore
Operator
E&B Natural Resources
Field history
Discovery
1948
Start of development
1948
Start of production
1948
Peak year
1950
Production
Current production of oil
113.4 barrels per day (~5,651 t/a)
Estimated oil in place
0.216 million barrels (~29,500 t)
Producing formations
Santa Margarita Formation (late Miocene); Vaqueros Sandstone (early Miocene)
The Russell Ranch Oil Field is an oil and gas field in the Cuyama Valley of northern Santa Barbara and southern San Luis Obispo Counties, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1948, and reaching peak production in 1950, it has produced over 68 million barrels (10,800,000 m3) of oil in its lifetime; with only an estimated 216,000 barrels (34,300 m3) of recoverable oil remaining, and having produced around 66,000 in 2008, it is considered to be close to exhaustion. The primary operator on the field as of 2010 is E&B Natural Resources, which also runs the nearby South Cuyama Oil Field.[1]
^"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 February 11, 2010. p. 100, 126
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