Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field

Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field
The Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field in Ventura County, California.
CountryUnited States
RegionVentura Basin
LocationVentura County, California
Offshore/onshoreonshore
Field history
Discovery1972
Start of development1972
Start of production1972
Peak year1977
Production
Current production of oil211 barrels per day (~10,500 t/a)
Year of current production of oil2009
Estimated oil in place1.335 million barrels (~1.821×10^5 t)
Producing formationsSespe Formation

The Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field is an oil field in Ventura County, California, about six miles southeast of the city of Ventura and four miles northeast of Oxnard. It is produced entirely from two walled drilling islands along Santa Clara Avenue, each containing multiple directionally drilled wells. The field is within an agricultural area being encroached on several sides by urban development. As of 2010 the field reported 1,335,000 barrels of recoverable oil remaining, and had 18 active oil wells.[1]

  1. ^ DOGGR 2010, 102, 165