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Volume: 30 (1946)

Issue: 12. (December)

First Page: 2090

Last Page: 2091

Title: Ramona Field, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Loyal E. Nelson

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The Ramona field is located 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles near Castaic Junction in the Santa Clara River Basin, Sec. 18, T. 4 N., R. 17 W., and Sec. 13, T. 4 N., R. 18 W.

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Discovery was effected by The Texas Company's Kern 42-18, completed on April 19, 1945, from 150 feet of upper Miocene sand at 3,000 feet, flowing 196 barrels per day 29.3°. Twenty-four wells have been completed since discovery with initial rates ranging from 50 to 150 barrels per day.

The structure is a northeast trending and plunging anticline with north flank cut by the paralleling Holser thrust fault of 4,000-5,000 feet throw. Present development has proved an area ¼ mile wide by 1½ miles in length.

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