pics from the Kern River Oil Field in CA today - mindblowing

[mustang1200]

Cool post. I remember climbing up on these things as kids and riding them.

I went to high school with a kid who did that and got crushed somehow. He lost both of his legs. Oddly enough with 2 fake legs he was still one of the fastest kids on the baseball team.

[JimD]

Wow, pretty cool!

[Sean88gt]

Nice !!

Bakersfield is a beautiful place

From the standpoint of revenue, I agree. But man, that city is a shit hole with 6' restrictions on strippers.

[GeorgeG.]

what a shit hole...

[War Machine]

Strychnine, you post the most detailed threads on this page. Interesting info. Thanks

[Big Dad]

From the standpoint of revenue, I agree. But man, that city is a shit hole with 6' restrictions on strippers.

I was talking about ..

Famoso .. Bakersfield (well, actually Wasco..but, close enough

Go to MARCH MEET or CHRR

great fun !

[Scott Mc]

I went to high school with a kid who did that and got crushed somehow. He lost both of his legs. Oddly enough with 2 fake legs he was still one of the fastest kids on the baseball team.

Damn, spring legs?

[Big Dad]

Damn, spring legs?

No, everyone else was really sloooooow...

[mustang1200]

Damn, spring legs?

This was before spring legs I think. He had what looked like aluminum poles with shoes on the ends.

No, everyone else was really sloooooow...

That's the truth. lol.

[SMKR]

The first well here was producing oil in 1889, and it's currently the fifth largest oil field in the US.




And here's an aerial view





But there's one thing an aerial shot can't show you, and that's the well spacing. It. Is. Fucking. Insane.

I'm used to west Tx where well pads are usually on 40-80 acre spacing.

Here there are ~8700 production wells in 10,750 acres (16.8 sq.mi.)




















http://www.qando.net/?p=497

That is exactly what the fields in Hobbs, NM looked like that we frac'ed

[SMKR]

damn. Must be pretty loud.

Not really, only real noise is when Frac companies come in using the turbine engines....

[Big Dad]

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[Strychnine]

While digging for something else this morning I came across a picture from 1910 taken in nearly the same spot as a pic I took in early 2014. Thought it was kinda cool.

Pics of the Kern River field taken 104 years apart:

http://s95.photobucket.com/user/stroked71/media/20140114_150611_zps15b06027.jpg

http://www.loc.gov/resource/pan.6a17538/