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Volume: 40 (1956)

Issue: 2. (February)

First Page: 432

Last Page: 432

Title: Geology of North Arvin Field, Kern County, California: ABSTRACT

Author(s): Robert B. Scott

Article Type: Meeting abstract

Abstract:

The North Arvin field is on the east side of the southern San Joaquin Valley approximately 13 miles southeast of Bakersfield. Production is from the non-marine (Pliocene-Miocene) Chanac formation and the marine (upper Miocene) Santa Margarita sand. A sub-commercial quantity of oil has been produced from the fractured metamorphic Basement Complex (Jurassic?). The thickness of sediments overlying the basement ranges from 5,000 to 7,000 feet, with the depth of wells averaging approximately 6,000 feet. The oil accumulation occurs on a regional southwesterly dipping homocline with closure effected primarily by the lensing of sands and to a lesser degree by faulting. The field was discovered on July 19, 1951, and has undergone almost continuous development from that date.

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