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    The Lompoc Oil Field is a large oil field in the Purisima Hills north of Lompoc, California, in Santa Barbara County. Discovered in 1903, two years after...
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    successful use of well cementing in Lompoc Oil Field. 1906-14: Union delivers 30,000 to 60,000 barrels of fuel oil per month for construction of Panama...
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    the Lompoc Oil Field and associated oil processing facilities north of town, and agriculture (especially seed flowers and vegetables). Lompoc is called...
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    California oil fields, including the Lompoc Oil Field in the similarly anticlinal ridge of the Purisima Hills to the south, and the Zaca field to the southeast...
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    and doing environmental restoration on the old and mostly played-out Lompoc Oil Field, which consists of approximately 3,700 acres (15 km2) of ecologically-sensitive...
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    including the Lompoc Oil Field in 1903 and the Cat Canyon field in 1908. Over the next 80 years more large oil fields were found, and thousands of oil wells drilled...
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    other places, such as in the Purisima Hills north of Lompoc, in and adjacent to the Lompoc Oil Field, its total thickness reaches 5,000 feet. Diatomite...
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    village is the Burton Mesa Ecological Reserve, and north of that the Lompoc Oil Field follows the line of the Purisima Hills. Water and Wastewater services...
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    on the north. They are the location of the economically important Lompoc Oil Field. The Purisima Hills are the southernmost location in the current natural...
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    Oil was discovered at the Orcutt field in the hills north of Valley in 1901, and in the Purisima Hills south of the valley at the Lompoc Oil Field in...
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    Monterey Formation (category Oil-bearing shales in the United States)
    other Monterey discoveries nearby, including the Cat Canyon Oil Field and Lompoc Oil Field. Each of these early Monterey discoveries depended on natural...
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    4 is a California Historical Landmark in Lompoc, California's Lompoc Oil Field in the Purisima Hills. The oil well is the first one to use pumping cement...
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    (September 5, 2008). "Greka to pay ,5M to settle suit". Lompoc Record. "Greka Oil issues 30 pink slips". Lompoc Record. March 24, 2009. "Greka Energy Corporation...
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    with the discovery of the huge Orcutt field in 1901 and the Lompoc field in 1903. The first attempts to find oil in the Cat Canyon area took place in 1904...
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    Edward L. Doheny (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
    September 8, 1935) was an American oil tycoon who, in 1892, drilled the first successful oil well in the Los Angeles City Oil Field. His success set off a petroleum...
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    Oil production began in 1886 with drilling in Summerland. Enormous oil fields such as the Orcutt, Lompoc, Santa Maria Valley, and Cat Canyon fields provided...
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    Carpinteria Tar Pits (category Oil fields in Santa Barbara County, California)
    directly on the beach and generate from the underlying Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field. The Carpinteria Tar Pits most likely date from the Pleistocene epoch...
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    Staff/Roadside Attractions (May 6, 2008). "Drivers can/t miss view of oil platforms". Lompoc Record. Retrieved November 29, 2015. "ExxonMobil Production Company...
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    natural oil seepage – Coal Oil Point. Goleta Point is a nearby extension into the channel. Point Arguello, a headland near the city of Lompoc, was the...
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    Venoco (category Defunct oil companies of the United States)
    studying possible ban on 'fracking'". Lompoc Record. Stewart, Ethan (May 5, 2011). "County Curious About Venoco's Oil-Extraction Techniques". Santa Barbara...
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    his money back to fund Henry's college tuition. Grey and Lopez head to Lompoc Prison to testify at a parole hearing for a man who shot Grey and his partner...
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    which included the world's first offshore oil wells. With the discovery of the Orcutt and Lompoc fields, northern Santa Barbara County became a regional...
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    Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary) is a Spanish mission in Lompoc, California. It was established on December 8, 1787 (the Feast of the Immaculate...
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  • Tribune. November 26, 1965. p. 51 – via newspapers.com. "AFL standings". Lompoc Records. December 19, 1966. p. 2-B – via newspapers.com. "Chargers' tie...
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    Zaca Oil Field is an oil field in central Santa Barbara County, California, about 20 miles southeast of Santa Maria. One of several oil fields in the...
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    Force Base) near Lompoc, California, briefly living with a United States Army Air Force sergeant who reportedly abused her. She left Lompoc in mid-1943 and...
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    worked in the Sisquoc Formation in Santa Barbara County, California near Lompoc and along the Southern California coast. This is the world's largest deposit...
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    and The Critic (episode "Lady Hawke"). The W. C. Fields comedy The Bank Dick (1940), set in Lompoc, includes a character listed in the film's credits...
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  • William Warren Orcutt (category Union Oil Company of California)
    the Coalinga, Lompoc, and Santa Maria oils fields and the application of geologic science and engineering principles to problems with oil production, changed...
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  • offshore oil well at the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field spewed between 80,000 and 100,000 barrels (13,000 and 16,000 m3) of oil, producing an immense oil slick...
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