page_title: Lost Hills Oil Field
section_title: Setting
hierarchical_section_title: Lost Hills Oil Field / Setting
caption_attribution_description: English: Pumpjacks on Lost Hills Oil Field in California on Route 46 at sunset. Almost all of the pumps shown on this picture were busy when I took the picture. Deutsch: Tiefpumpen auf dem Lost-Hills-Ölfeld in Kalifornien an der Route 46 bei Sonnenuntergang. Fast alle abgebildeten Pumpen waren in Betrieb während ich fotografierte. Français&#160;: Chevalet de pompage dans les Lost Hills Oil Field (Zone Pétrolifère des Collines Perdues) en Californie, sur la Route 46, pendant le coucher de soleil. Quasiment toutes les pompes étaient en fonctionnement au moment où j'ai pris la photo.
context_page_description: The Lost Hills Oil Field is a large oil field in the Lost Hills Range, north of the town of Lost Hills in western Kern County, California, in the United States.
context_section_description: The Lost Hills Field underlies a long, low range of southeast-to-northwest trending hills of the same name adjacent to the San Joaquin Valley. The hills rise scarcely more than 200 feet (61 m) above the San Joaquin Valley to the east, and only 100 feet (30 m) or less above the Antelope Plain to the west; in places they are almost flat. The hills and associated oil field are between Interstate 5 to the east and State Route 33 to the west, both of which parallel the field; Interstate 5 runs about 4 miles (6.4 km) away and Route 33 about 7 miles (11 km). The California Aqueduct runs adjacent to the field boundary on the northeast, and the town of Lost Hills is on the other side of the aqueduct along California State Route 46, which passes through the field from east to west.
  The climate in the Lost Hills area is arid to semi-arid, with an average rainfall of 5 to 6 inches (130 to 150 mm)  a year, almost all in the winter months. Vegetation in the vicinity of the field is mostly grassland and sparse scrub, with some adjacent orchards, although in the oil field itself most vegetation has been removed from the areas of active operations.
caption: There are hundreds of pumpjacks on Lost Hills Oilfield near route 46.
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