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    The Long Beach Oil Field is a large oil field underneath the cities of Long Beach and Signal Hill, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1921...
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    oil was discovered at the Long Beach Oil Field on and around Signal Hill. In 1932, the fourth-largest oil field in the United States, Wilmington Oil Field...
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    Wilmington Oil Field in partnership with the State of California and the City of Long Beach. CRC's Long Beach operations include: THUMS Long Beach Company...
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    structural traps. Other fields along the same fault zone include the Beverly Hills Oil Field to the north, and the Long Beach Oil Field to the south. The Baldwin...
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    Long Beach Oil Field, brought in by the gusher at the Alamitos oil well #1, made Long Beach a major oil producer; in the 1920s the field was the most productive...
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    Huntington Beach Oil Field in 1920, and the Long Beach Oil Field in 1921. Although no oil was initially found, 1921 also marked the first drilling for oil at...
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    this way Long Beach was granted ownership of Long Beach Harbor in 1911. When the Wilmington field was discovered, Long Beach contracted with oil companies...
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    1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California...
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    completely surrounded by the city of Long Beach. Signal Hill was incorporated on April 22, 1924, roughly three years after oil was discovered there. As of the...
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  • Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope. It is the largest oil field in North America, covering 213,543 acres (86,418 ha) and...
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    The Los Angeles City Oil Field is a large oil field north of Downtown Los Angeles. Long and narrow, it extends from immediately south of Dodger Stadium...
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  • The world's 932 giant oil and gas fields are considered those with 500 million barrels (79,000,000 m3) of ultimately recoverable oil or gas equivalent. Geoscientists...
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  • established. 1911 – Port of Long Beach dedicated. 1913 – Long Beach pier auditorium disaster kills 39. 1921 – Long Beach Oil Field discovered at Signal Hill...
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    onshore portions of the field include beach, coastal bluffs, blufftop grasslands, and eucalyptus groves. Some of the former oil field is now part of the Ellwood-Devereux...
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    The Summerland Oil Field (and Summerland Offshore Oil Field) is an inactive oil field in Santa Barbara County, California, about four miles (6 km) east...
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    Hills Oil Field Brea-Olinda Oil Field Dominguez Oil Field Elwood Oil Field Huntington Beach Oil Field Inglewood Oil Field Long Beach Oil Field Los Angeles...
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    Oil Field in 1893, the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 1900, the Salt Lake Oil Field in 1902, and many others. The discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field in...
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    THUMS Islands (category Geography of Long Beach, California)
    Pedro Bay off the coast of Long Beach, California. The THUMS Islands were built in 1965 to tap into the East Wilmington Oil Field. The landscaping and sound...
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    California, US in 1921 marked the discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field, one of the most productive oil fields in the world. The Barroso 2 well in Cabimas,...
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    The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's...
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    Capistrano Beach Corona del Mar Dana Point El Porto El Segundo Hermosa Beach Huntington Beach Laguna Beach Long Beach Los Angeles Malibu Manhattan Beach Marina...
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    The Brea-Olinda Oil Field is a large oil field in northern Orange County and Los Angeles County, California, along the southern edge of the Puente Hills...
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    The Orange County oil spill on October 1, 2021, is an oil spill that deposited crude oil onto popular Southern California beaches on the West Coast of...
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    California Resources Corporation (category Companies based in Long Beach, California)
    partnership with California, several smaller fields in Los Angeles County, and the Huntington Beach Oil Field in Orange County, California. As of December...
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    deep. The seabed near Long Beach has experienced considerable subsidence as a result of oil extraction in the Wilmington Field from the 1950s onward....
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  • Chittick Field is a sports complex in Long Beach, California. Originally constructed (and still used) as a stormwater detention basin named Hamilton Bowl...
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    The Long Beach International Gateway, originally known as the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement, is a cable-stayed bridge that carries six lanes of Interstate...
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    a result of the 1920 discovery of oil in the Huntington Beach Oil Field. The census-designated place of Sunset Beach, and its population of 971 as of the...
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    The Mesa Oil Field is an abandoned oil field entirely within the city limits of Santa Barbara, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1929, it...
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    16,000 m3; 3,400,000 to 4,200,000 US gal) of crude oil spilled into the Channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California, fouling...
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