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Historical and continuing technology application at a giant heavy oil field

James F. Swartz, Charles Piestch and Stephen D. Cassidy

Discovered in 1899 and estimated to hold over 3.5 billion bbl of original oil in place, Kern River Field was a sleeping giant until the late 1960s, when steamflooding began and production ramped up from 19,000 bopd to over 142,000 bopd by the mid-1980s.

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