Kern County is home to the five most productive oil fields in California. Above, oil pumps and equipment are seen in the South Belridge oil field about 40 miles west of Bakersfield.

The Belridge oil field near Bakersfield, California, is one of the largest in the country. It has been producing oil for more than a century and last year produced around 76,000 barrels a day ...

Oil from Kern County’s wells makes up about 70% of the state’s oil production. Above, a field in Bakersfield. ... SIGN UP for the free California Inc. business newsletter >> ...

The Belridge oil field near Bakersfield, Calif., is one of the largest in the country. It has been producing oil for more than a century and last year produced about 76,000 barrels a day ...

Idled wells are a burgeoning problem in California's century-old oil fields, and cleanup costs could top $1 billion, according to a 2020 state study.

Employment in Kern County oil fields shrank by 1,200 jobs in January and February, or 10 percent, according to state data released Friday.

Located at the southern end of California’s Central Valley, Bakersfield—the county seat of Kern County, which is one of the largest counties in the U.S.—is a microcosm of the economic and ...

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed there are more jobs in solar than oil in the Bakersfield area. That's not the case. By Chris Nichols December 6, 2019 ...

Sunray, the operator of a Bakersfield oil field where six wells were discovered leaking methane near homes in late May, had been ordered by California's oil and gas supervisor on May 2 to clean up ...

Seven more oil wells were discovered leaking methane near a Bakersfield neighborhood, state inspectors reported this week.. In total, inspectors have found 13 wells in eight days emitting the ...

A person looks over the Chevron Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield on May 9, 2023. The California Independent Petroleum Association said it would drop a ballot challenge to a law banning oil ...