Cyclic steam injection is a common method of oil extraction in California in which steam is injected at high pressure into a heavy-oil formation. The process is largely unregulated and has been blamed ...

BAKERSFIELD — On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a “chimney” — a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field ...

Mike Lopez represents the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters, Local 114, based in Buellton. He was a vocal supporter of new oil development in Cat Canyon because it would mean union jobs, ...

State employees are worried higher-ups are helping oil companies take shortcuts DOGGR, the regulatory agency, says a review 'identified some issues' DOGGR's programs are funded by a fee on all oil ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging San Benito County’s approval of a major new oil development in the Salinas Valley watershed. The 15 new oil wells ...

The supervisors tried to make one thing clear this week: They had only two options with Measure P after the Water Guardians quickly snagged 16,000 signatures this spring in support of a ban on new ...

SACRAMENTO— California’s troubled oil agency routinely approves high-pressure steam injections into oil wells that fracture rock formations, violating the law and increasing the risk of water ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) - Chevron is to blame for a failing slope that made a smaller company stop work and spend millions of dollars on environmental remediation, the smaller company claims in court ...

Despite new California regulations banning surface spills in the state's vast oil fields, at least eight spills connected to Chevron have occurred in just one Kern County oil field since the new rules ...

In June 2011, a sinkhole of super-heated earth opened up and swallowed an oilfield worker in Kern County. That field had been producing heavy oil for decades utilizing a high-pressure production ...