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New York Times: Secure in this state’s history and mythology, the venerable Midway-Sunset oil field near here keeps producing crude more than a century after Southern California’s oil boom. Many of its bobbing pump jacks are relatively short, a telltale sign of the shallowness of the wells and the ease of extracting their prize. But away from this forest of pump jacks on a flat, brown landscape, a road snakes up into nearby hills that are largely untouched — save for a handful of exploratory wells pumping oil from......
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Vast Oil Reserve in California May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up
Posted by New York Times: Norimitsu Onishi on February 4th, 2013
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