Posted on 03/15/2022 4:50:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
(18 million bbl a week)
The Fake Buildings That Hide LA’s Massive Oil Industry | January 13, 2022 | Half as Interesting
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How much recoverable oil is at La Brea?
Los Angeles has a subway, too.
They are on many corners sometimes inside other business
Looks like not much. And it’s asphalt rather than oil.
https://suburbanturmoil.com/about-the-la-brea-tar-pits/2016/06/28/
Are we talking about LOS ANGELES (L.A.) or LOUISIANA (LA)?
Big difference!
There’s lots of oil under Los Angeles.
They used to burn it to generate electricity, it made a brown haze and makes lungs hurt and eyes burn
They Phazed out the oil fired power plants as they imposed smog devices on cars and the government declared themselves our heroes for saving us from our smog belching cars, but it was really because of their high sulpher oil burning generators
“The city’s different at night. The air smells better. It’s harder to see that the oil rigs outnumber the palm trees.”
—The Two Jakes
the flyash is very valuable as a cement additive for concrete
and the sulfur is good for making black powder for ordnance
worked all over the LA oil basin....on production hoists, drilling rigs and oil and gas facilities. Their was or is oilwells every where. not all wells have pumping unit on it. Even worked on the old standard derricks, where we had to hook up our draw works to pull the well. the oilfields were very good to me, retired for a while now
Baker Industries in east LA puts out a nasty smell ( meat packing waste, dead animals and vegetable oil processing/recycling)
I probably saw you on a unit “turnover” at one of the refineries, I ran a concrete boom pump for Merli
Los Angeles of course.
“ There’s lots of oil under Los Angeles.”
The La Brea área has a considerable amount of oil. I met the captain of an oil exploration ship many years ago. He stated that there was so much oil off the coast of Southern California that it would take years to map it all.
Yeah, it's not about clean air, it's about getting a bigger boot for everyone's necks.
I knew there was oil in LA since the first time I visited back in the 80s. A friend showed me one of the “fake” buildings with an oil well inside. I did not know until recently that LA once had oil derricks all the way down to the ocean front. They were everywhere. Maybe they still are everywhere, just well hidden. Amazing.
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