Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field | |
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Country | United States |
Region | Ventura Basin |
Location | Ventura County, California |
Offshore/onshore | onshore |
Field history | |
Discovery | 1972 |
Start of development | 1972 |
Start of production | 1972 |
Peak year | 1977 |
Production | |
Current production of oil | 211 barrels per day (~10,500 t/a) |
Year of current production of oil | 2009 |
Estimated oil in place | 1.335 million barrels (~1.821×10 5 t) |
Producing formations | Sespe 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]