Buena Vista Oil Field
The Buena Vista Oil Field, formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 2 (NPR-2) is a large oil field in Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California in the United States. Discovered in 1909, and having a cumulative production of approximately 667 million barrels (106,000,000 m3), it is the tenth-largest oil field in California. It is also one of the closest to being exhausted, having a total reserve of only about one percent of its original oil, and having produced a mere 713,000 barrels (113,400 m3) in 2006.
The oil field is in two parts, the Buena Vista Hills Area and the Buena Vista Front Area, both roughly linear features about 12 miles (19 km) long, running parallel about two miles (3 km) apart, and each being one to two miles (3 km) across, and trending from southeast to northwest. The town of Taft is adjacent to the southwest, about halfway along the field. The oil field underlies the Buena Vista Hills, a low range with a maximum elevation of 1,300 feet (400 m), in their entirety, and the Buena Vista Front Area is mostly in the Buena Vista Valley, which separates the Buena Vista Hills from the larger Elk Hills range to the north. State Route 33 parallels the Buena Vista Field about two miles (3 km) to the southwest, and State Route 119 cuts across the field to the northeast, towards Bakersfield.
Many oil fields underlie the southwestern portion of Kern County. Adjacent to the Buena Vista field to the southwest is the enormous Midway-Sunset Oil Field, the largest in California and third-largest in the United States, and just north of the Buena Vista field is the Elk Hills Oil Field, famous for the Teapot Dome scandal as one of the illicit leases that brought corruption charges upon the administration of Warren G. Harding.
Until January 1, 1958, the Buena Vista field was considered to be part of the larger Midway-Sunset Field to the southwest; now, however, the two are considered to be geologically separate.
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