Using San Joaquin Valley Oil Fields as a Technology Test Bed To Mature Steamflood Technology

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Stevenson ◽  
Ronald A. Behrens ◽  
Stephen David Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
San Joaquin Valley ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Test Bed

GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN AQUIFERS NEAR AND OVERLYING THE ELK HILLS AND NORTH COLES LEVEE OIL FIELDS, SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Warden ◽  
◽  
Matthew K. Landon ◽  
Peter B. McMahon ◽  
Janice M. Gillespie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Quality ◽  
San Joaquin Valley ◽  
Oil Fields

PROBABILITY STUDIES IN THREE VARIANTS: SEISMIC VELOCITY, DEPTH, AND LITHOLOGY

Geophysics ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethel Ward McLemore
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Inference ◽  
Seismic Velocity ◽  
San Joaquin Valley ◽  
Oil Fields ◽  
Velocity Information ◽  
Rio Bravo

In an effort to determine if lithology—shales, sands, or a mixture of both—can be inferred from interval seismic velocity values, probability theories of statistical inference were applied to data from 16 wells shot for velocity information and from electric logs of the wells in the San Joaquin Valley, California, area. Average velocities, velocity functions, and probability ratios were derived for the three classes of lithology, for all data, for the two general areas, and for three individual oil fields: Wasco, Rio Bravo, and Coalinga.

scholarly journals Occurrence and Sources of Radium in Groundwater Associated with Oil Fields in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (16) ◽  
pp. 9398-9406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter B. McMahon ◽  
Avner Vengosh ◽  
Tracy A. Davis ◽  
Matthew K. Landon ◽  
Rebecca L. Tyne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Joaquin Valley ◽  
Oil Fields

Fires in the Oil Fields

1917 ◽  
Vol 83 (2147supp) ◽  
pp. 120-121
Author(s):  
O. R. Geyer
Keyword(s):  
Oil Fields

Transportation and the Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-61
Author(s):  
Douglas R. Littlefield
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
San Joaquin Valley ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Major Health ◽  
San Joaquin River ◽  
Natural Wetlands ◽  
Prevailing View

Some histories of California describe nineteenth-century efforts to reclaim the extensive swamplands and shallow lakes in the southern part of California's San Joaquin Valley – then the largest natural wetlands habitat west of the Mississippi River – as a herculean venture to tame a boggy wilderness and turn the region into an agricultural paradise. Yet an 1850s proposition for draining those marshes and lakes primarily was a scheme to improve the state's transportation. Swampland reclamation was a secondary goal. Transport around the time of statehood in 1850 was severely lacking in California. Only a handful of steamboats plied a few of the state's larger rivers, and compared to the eastern United States, roads and railroads were nearly non-existent. Few of these modes of transportation reached into the isolated San Joaquin Valley. As a result, in 1857 the California legislature granted an exclusive franchise to the Tulare Canal and Land Company (sometimes known as the Montgomery franchise, after two of the firm's founders). The company's purpose was to connect navigable canals from the southern San Joaquin Valley to the San Joaquin River, which entered from the Sierra Nevada about half way up the valley. That stream, in turn, joined with San Francisco Bay, and thus the canals would open the entire San Joaquin Valley to world-wide commerce. In exchange for building the canals, the Montgomery franchise could collect tolls for twenty years and sell half the drained swamplands (the other half was to be sold by the state). Land sales were contingent upon the Montgomery franchise reclaiming the marshes. Wetlands in the mid-nineteenth century were not viewed as they are today as fragile wildlife habitats but instead as impediments to advancing American ideals and homesteads across the continent. Moreover, marshy areas were seen as major health menaces, with the prevailing view being that swampy regions’ air carried infectious diseases.

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