Oil field in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
Zaca Oil Field
The Zaca Oil Field in Santa Barbara County, California.
Country
United States
Region
Santa Maria Basin
Location
Santa Barbara County, California
Offshore/onshore
onshore
Operators
Underground Energy, Greka Energy (HVI Cat Canyon, Inc.)
Field history
Discovery
1942
Start of development
1942
Start of production
1942
Peak year
1954
Production
Current production of oil
4,682 barrels per day (~2.333×10^5 t/a)
Year of current production of oil
1954
Estimated oil in place
2.036 million barrels (~2.778×10^5 t)
Producing formations
Monterey Shale (fractured)
The Zaca Oil Field is an oil field in central Santa Barbara County, California, about 20 miles southeast of Santa Maria. One of several oil fields in the county which produce heavy oil from the Monterey Formation, the field is hidden within a region of rolling hills, north of the Santa Ynez Valley. As of 2011, the principal operator of the oil field is Greka Energy and the operator of the "Zaca Field Extension Project" is Underground Energy. The field is known to contain heavy crude oil and Underground Energy has recently discovered a lower sub-thrust block in the field, which was not previously produced by the field's historical operators. The field was discovered in 1942, reached peak production in 1954, and remains active with more than thirty oil wells and continues to grow.
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developer. In the 1920s, oil was discovered on some of his property which made them wealthy. In 1926, Field purchased Zaca Lake and surrounding land...
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California oilfields, including the Lompoc OilField in the similarly anticlinal ridge of the Purisima Hills to the south, and the Zacafield to the southeast...
the ecosystem. Beebe described his two expeditions onboard the Zaca in his books Zaca Venture and The Book of Bays, in which he emphasized his concern...
car crash, tornado, deforestation, flooding, toxic release, and spills (oil, chemicals). A disaster hazard is an extreme geophysical event that is capable...
of power lines supplying electricity to equipment in the Brea-Olinda OilField. The electrical lines were owned by the BreitBurn Management Company in...
slowed on its west flank, as it reached the burn area of the 240,000-acre Zaca Fire (97,000 ha) from 2007. However, the Thomas Fire's northwestern and southwestern...
western portion) and for more than 100 years (for the remainder), in the Zaca Fire. [2] At its creation in 1968 the San Rafael Wilderness consisted of...
the vicinity of the inn. A yacht once belonging to Errol Flynn, the USS Zaca, is berthed here and is supposed to be haunted. Witnesses have reported seeing...
known as the Porter Ranch Fire) was a wildfire that broke out near the oilfields of Oat Mountain, north of Porter Ranch, California, on Monday October...
fear of vandalism. Almost all of the wilderness was burned in 2007 by the Zaca Fire. Gagnon, Dennis R. Hiking the Santa Barbara Backcountry. The Ward Ritchie...
Ojai and had jumped Highway 33 and the Ventura River into the Rincon OilField area. By December 8, the Thomas Fire had grown to 143,000 acres (580 km2)...
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