Technological Advances In Search For Crude Oil

Much of the oil we use is expensive foreign oil, but California is now developing technology to help get some of the thickest, most hard to extract oil out of the ground around the world. I traveled to the oil fields of Kern County where the drive to discover is underway to make every drop of oil count.

The fields outside Bakersfield produce 77-percent of California’s oil supply. That’s over 170 million barrels a year. However, peak production was some 25 years ago, going from boom to bust when gas prices fell to 80 cents a gallon.

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