The oil field where the company plans to build its pilot, roughly an hour west of Bakersfield, is surrounded by a sea of large black oil pumps. Umbro notes that the new equipment will be low to ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO ... Kern County’s first discovery well in the Kern River oil field was drilled in 1899, now oil and gas account for over 20 billion dollars in economic impact ...

The Lundin-Weber D-352-30 will be drilled with Tri-Valley's own Rig No. 103 to a depth of 4,000 feet with cores taken at each of the multiple oil bearing zones on the way down. Once the optimum ...

BAKERSFIELD ... faster — smashed into a big rig pulling two trailers containing 8-thousand gallons of highly volatile, ...

BAKERSFIELD, CA (February 6, 2025) – Wednesday afternoon, a three-vehicle big-rig crash on 24th Street sent two people to a hospital. Officials responded to the scene around 1:25 p.m., in the ...

A local oil-field service company that shed dozens of local jobs last year has announced additional layoffs amid what has become a historically tough time for one of Kern's most important industries.