page_title: Wilmington Oil Field
hierarchical_section_title: Wilmington Oil Field
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilmington Oil Field within the Los Angeles Basin, California, U.S. All data shown on this map is in the public domain. Created by User:Antandrus using ArcGIS 9.2; data sources include US census TIGER data (2000), USGS national elevation dataset, and California Department of Natural Resources file of oil field boundaries.
context_page_description: The Wilmington Oil Field is a prolific petroleum field in Los Angeles County in southern California in the United States. Discovered in 1932, it is the third largest oil field in the United States in terms of cumulative oil production. The field runs roughly southeast to northwest through the Los Angeles Basin, stretching from the middle of San Pedro Bay through Long Beach and east of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The field originally contained approximately at least some 3 billion barrels of reserves. In 2013, the USGS estimated future potential production from the combined Wilmington-Belmont oilfield could be around 900 million barrels.
  The offshore portion of the oil field is developed largely through wells drilled directionally from THUMS Islands, four artificial islands in Long Beach Harbor.
context_section_description: The Wilmington Oil Field is a prolific petroleum field in Los Angeles County in southern California in the United States. Discovered in 1932, it is the third largest oil field in the United States in terms of cumulative oil production. The field runs roughly southeast to northwest through the Los Angeles Basin, stretching from the middle of San Pedro Bay through Long Beach and east of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.  The field originally contained approximately at least some 3 billion barrels (480,000,000 m³) of reserves. In 2013, the USGS estimated future potential production from the combined Wilmington-Belmont oilfield could be around 900 million barrels (140,000,000 m³).
  The offshore portion of the oil field is developed largely through wells drilled directionally from THUMS Islands, four artificial islands in Long Beach Harbor.
caption: Location of the Wilmington Oil Field within the Los Angeles Basin.  Oil fields are shown in light violet.
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