Heavy Oil of the Kern River Oil Field

June 24, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Contributed by: Chris

Heavy Oil of the Kern River Oil Field

The Future of Oil…and of Solar?

By Chris Nelder, GetRealList
June 24, 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of touring the Kern River oil field in Bakersfield, California, courtesy of Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute, who sponsored the trip and conducted the tour. After a decade of poring over energy data and technical papers, it was a rare pleasure to take my first tour of an actual oil field. In this post I’ll share the information I collected, and offer some observations on what it implies for the future of oil production.

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