The sites were in a 2014 Atlantic magazine article with many good images, The Urban Oil Fields of Los Angeles. Long Beach also has creatively hidden production platforms (see THUMS – California’s Hidden Oil Islands).
well sites highlight field trips organized by the Center for Land Use Interpretation. “Everyone thinks of Los Angeles as the ultimate car city, but the city’s relationship with petroleum products is far more significant than just consumption.”ĭowntown L.A. “The history of Los Angeles is intertwined with the use and production of gasoline and oil,” noted an article from the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, California. There are still more than 30,000 active wells pumping around 230 million barrels of oil a year, making Los Angeles County the second most productive oil county in California. More than nine billion barrels of oil have been produced in the Los Angeles area. Summers were less than a genius she could not, as she does today, control the Los Angeles oil markets.” Read about her in Oil Queen of California. A 1901 publication featured Emma Summers and her “genius for affairs” that put her in control of the Los Angeles City oilfield and earned her title.Ĭaught up in the “oil fever” of the new petroleum industry, the former piano teacher would become known as California’s “Oil Queen.” A 1901 newspaper article noted – “If Mrs.
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