The oil field where the company plans to build its pilot, roughly an hour west of Bakersfield, is surrounded by a sea of large black oil pumps. Umbro notes that the new equipment will be low to ...

A business-improvement initiative months in the planning will debut Wednesday at Taft College as leaders from across the area ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif ... These wells are at the Fruitvale, McKittrick, Mount Poso and Mountain View oil fields in Kern County, ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Environmental and community groups joined ... open more than a million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to oil drilling and fracking. The rallies will ...