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Great Oil Fields of Los Angeles County

Oil Field	Year Discovered	*Cumulative Production (Mbbl)**	*Est. Reserves (Mbbl) 12/31/**03	*2003 Production (Mbbl)**	Producing Wells (2003)
Wilmington**	1932	2,613,406	370,986	14,912	1,229
Long Beach	1921	935,285	10,385	1,517	266
Santa Fe Springs	1919	624,965	8,789	648	96
Brea-Olinda	1880	406,080	25,211	1,335	539
Inglewood	1924	381,226	48,322	2,739	358
Dominguez	1923	273,988	353	10	3
Coyote, West***	1909	252,960	0	0	0
Torrance	1922	224,041	7,653	380	122
Seal Beach	1924	211,922	6,860	487	132
Montebello	1917	200,394	8,034	918	136
Beverly Hills	1900	143,918	14,943	1,135	92

* Thousands of barrels; ** 2nd Largest in California; *** Overlaps into Orange County
Source: California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources

Edward Doheny dug the first oil well in Los Angeles in 1892.

The Wilmington Oil Field is the third largest oil field in the United States, behind Prudhoe Bay and the East Texas oil fields. By 2002, about 87 percent of its oil had been recovered, leaving less than an estimated 385 million barrels in reserve.

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