C-SPAN Cities Tour - Bakersfield: History of the Kern County Oil Industry

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  • Опубліковано 4 лип 2013
  • Kern County generates 76% of all the oil produced in California and is the largest oil producing county in the United States. Tour one of Bakersfield's oil fields, and hear from Bakersfield historian Jeff Nickell about the discovery of oil there in 1899 and learn how the oil industry has grown throughout Kern County.
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  • @raybin6873
    @raybin6873 3 роки тому +5

    I counted the narrator guy saying the word "um" at least 126 times...😁

    • @johnjennings8085
      @johnjennings8085 2 роки тому +1

      Um your right.

    • @Stefan_Dahn
      @Stefan_Dahn 2 роки тому

      Jeff "M." Nickell

    • @raycolejr7538
      @raycolejr7538 4 місяці тому

      Very irritating, they couldn't find a better narrator than this egg???

  • @righand
    @righand 5 років тому

    Very interesting.

  • @miguelventura7651
    @miguelventura7651 3 роки тому +2

    I worked in oil center/kern river field when Getty oil was the primary producer. It was my understanding the Chinese hand dug the early wells. ? Anyway some of the wooden Derricks were still standing

  • @ap3363
    @ap3363 Рік тому +1

    Albert Chuchian owned about 4 oil wells here.

  • @20block.Pologroundz
    @20block.Pologroundz 10 років тому +1

    Damn ha I work out on the chevron lease !

  • @richardwatts3619
    @richardwatts3619 5 років тому +8

    WITH OUT STEAM ENGINES THEY HAD NO POWER TO DRILL.SIR JAMES WATT AND BOULTON MADE THE FIRST ENGINES.

  • @eversunnyguy
    @eversunnyguy 2 роки тому +1

    What powers those equipment to lift constantly ? Electricity ?

    • @ryanehlis426
      @ryanehlis426 Рік тому +1

      Yes usually but sometimes they use combustion engines or generators running on natural gas or propane or diesel

    • @user-zq3iz3zn5m
      @user-zq3iz3zn5m 2 місяці тому

      Most producers lifting heavy thick oil use steam to drive the oil to the producing wells. Secondary use of steam is erection of steam co-generation plants to supply steam and electricity to operate the field.

    • @eversunnyguy
      @eversunnyguy 2 місяці тому

      @@user-zq3iz3zn5mGood to know 🙂

  • @veramann
    @veramann 9 років тому +3

    Is there still a lot of oil left in the field?

    • @harsheshmehta5955
      @harsheshmehta5955 5 років тому +3

      Yes, I work here. quite a bit of oil is still retrievable because of all new drilling technologies.

    • @emmiejones1102
      @emmiejones1102 2 роки тому

      theyre fracking it now -- as much as they can until we all burn to death from climate change

    • @ryanehlis426
      @ryanehlis426 Рік тому +2

      Yes and oil fields regenerate over time.

  • @kfcranger7257
    @kfcranger7257 2 роки тому

    SSI Isaac Salinas CA USA 1988

  • @ericlakota6512
    @ericlakota6512 3 роки тому

    Alot of them are storage they drill and find it and actuly move all small pockets to one giant pcket for free storage

  • @tracezachdaniels4264
    @tracezachdaniels4264 3 роки тому

    SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide}
    ...cool video...and now 2021...lets move on from ''fossil fuel''...asap...

    • @jeffmiller3150
      @jeffmiller3150 Рік тому

      The world uses 100 million barrels of petroleum every day, it powers 97,% of all transportation!!☺️

  • @ictrains9731
    @ictrains9731 2 роки тому

    The first oil produce was done north of Santa Paula, CA in California by Union Oil of California not Bakersfield. FYI it's Oil City not Oil Center.

  • @jerrypilato1224
    @jerrypilato1224 6 років тому +2

    Then why the fuck is our gas so expensive!

    • @user-zq3iz3zn5m
      @user-zq3iz3zn5m 2 місяці тому

      Poor resource management at the governmental level.

  • @liveti1till160
    @liveti1till160 7 років тому +4

    He sounds more like a PR agent than a historian. Not much history in 8min

    • @emmiejones1102
      @emmiejones1102 2 роки тому +1

      yeah he works for oil and gas, he's a crony

    • @ryanehlis426
      @ryanehlis426 Рік тому

      Amen, oil and gas is very good, we have lots of oil and gas, drill baby drill :)

  • @sneadh1
    @sneadh1 11 місяців тому

    The last gasps of a dinosaur industry.

    • @user-zq3iz3zn5m
      @user-zq3iz3zn5m 2 місяці тому

      Oil is not a product of dinosaur degeneration. It is made like coal and diamonds, it is acient sea plankton layered and trapped in layers of silts.

  • @40ozYT
    @40ozYT 8 років тому +3

    he was a terrible sociology professor at Bakersfield college.

  • @genogeno1234
    @genogeno1234 Рік тому

    We used to call this oilfield "hell" when I worked for Schlumberger. Looked like hell, and smelled like hell. I was embarrassed to be a petroleum engineer when I saw this oilfield for the first time. This oilfield along with Midway Sunset are an abomination. Ugly on a colossal scale, you can see this abomination from space.

  • @DVNNYV
    @DVNNYV 5 років тому +3

    The oil industry kills.

  • @geekcrafted5440
    @geekcrafted5440 10 років тому +3

    protecting their investment aka. Being greedy oil barons

    • @thebadguy9058
      @thebadguy9058 3 роки тому +3

      Yeah. Those greedy oil Baron's put food on millions of families tables across the world, mine being one of those families. Don't get involved in things you know nothing about.

    • @jamesbottoms6912
      @jamesbottoms6912 2 роки тому +1

      @@thebadguy9058 Yes Geek crafted should ban oil from their lives.

  • @geniuszeal205
    @geniuszeal205 2 роки тому +1

    Anyone reading this comment, ask God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost to show you what I’m trying to tell you and others!

  • @TheDustysix
    @TheDustysix 6 років тому +2

    ....Once things happen a few times... People get the message. Trump 2020.

    • @WAL_DC-6B
      @WAL_DC-6B Рік тому +1

      Yes, people did indeed "get the message" for 2020.