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.

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

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