Virtual Guidebook to the San Joaquin Valley
The West Side Oil Fields
Kern County, California

The Elk Hills oil field, part of the Naval Petroleum Reserve. (3-21-02)

The West Kern Oil Museum in Taft. (3-21-02)
Interesting junk on the back lot at the West Kern Oil Museum. (3-21-02)
Site of the Lakeview Gusher, greatest runaway oil well of all time. (3-21-02)
In the crater left by the Lakeview Gusher of 1910. (3-21-02)

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