COALINGA, Calif.—Chevron Corp. is enlisting the sun to help drain the sludge-like dregs of crude from an aging oil field. Chevron is keen to extract this thick crude by heating it with steam ...

Fresno County has about 2,315 active oil and gas drilling wells — representing about 4% of the state’s total oil production, according to April 2022 data from the California Department of ...

Fresno County has long been an energy-producing region, with Standard Oil — now Chevron — drilling its first well in Coalinga nearly 120 years ago. Yet state policies have made it harder to ...

Tri-Valley has commenced operations to drill its Los Gatos prospect near Coalinga, some 100 miles north of Bakersfield, California. The play levers off an earlier test in which the Oil Creek well ...

It is southeast of the East Coalinga Extension which has produced some 458-million barrels of oil and the famed Kettleman Hills Field to the northwest which has produced 2.9 (TCF) trillion cubic ...

At its 1975 peak, about 50 of Jean Dakessian’s oil well creations were spread around Coalinga. In a Dec. 1, 1975 Los Angeles Times article, Charles Hillinger reported: COALINGA — It’s the ...

Chevron Technology Ventures launched a demonstration project at Coalinga field in Kern County, Calif., to test the viability of using solar energy to enhance heavy oil production. The project uses ...

Tapping the sun's power is seen as an energy source of the future, but in Coalinga it's being used for a more traditional energy source -- giant mirrors are helping to pump oil out of the ground.

I went to Coalinga and Huron to hear out the head of an oil industry campaign targeting Latinos. I didn’t find opposition to California’s climate policies the oil lobby is peddling. Oct. 20, 2023 ...

Coalinga sits on the » The FINANCIAL Oil & Auto. The FINANCIAL -- Coalinga, a small town in California’s Central Valley, is home to the past, present and future of energy.