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By Clinton Tippett, President of the Petroleum History Society Prepared for the June 2014 Global Petroleum Show in Calgary Page 5 1962 – First offshore semisubmersible drilling rig. 1962 – First offshore subsea well completion. 1964 – First international sale of LNG with Algeria supplying Great Britain and France.
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The first strictly offshore oil field in California was the Belmont Offshore Field, discovered in 1948 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from the shore of Seal Beach; production did not begin until 1954 when a man-made island was built in 40 feet of water for drilling and production equipment.
By the mid-19th century, American geologists discovered the vast oil reserves in California and began mass drilling in the Western Territory. While California's production of excavated oil increased significantly during the early 20th century, the accelerated drilling resulted in an overproduction of the commodity, and the federal government unsuccessfully made several attempts to regulate the ...
Jun 1, 2012 · Additionally, the laws governing the ownership of both land and oil in early twentieth-century California encouraged dense, rushed drilling, especially in urban areas. This situation handicapped government and industry efforts to mitigate oil-related damage and highlights the centrality of property rights to industrial regulation. 1
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California drilling operations and oil production are concentrated primarily in Kern County, San Joaquin Valley and the Los Angeles basin. There is also some offshore oil and gas production in California, but there is now a permanent moratorium on new offshore oil and gas leasing and new oil platforms in both California and federal waters, although new wells can be drilled from existing platforms.
2010: A Deepwater Horizon drilling rig is rocked by an explosion and fire and sinks into the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven crew members die. Eleven crew members die. Multiple attempts to completely shut off the flow of oil fail and oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico unabated for three months, spilling 4.9 million barrels of crude oil.
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The U.S. Geological Survey provides an interactive map of historical oil and gas production in the United States from 1859 to 2005, including Alaska and Hawaii. In this map, the country is split into quarter-mile cells and the production status of all wells in that cell are aggregated for each time period. The map can be filtered to show oil and gas production pre-1900, for each decade of the ...
