🛢 Buena Vista Oil Field

The Buena Vista Oil Field, formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 2 (NPR-2) is a large oil field in Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California in the United States. Discovered in 1909, and having a cumulative production of approximately 686 million barrels (109,100,000 m3), it is the tenth-largest oil field in California as of 2024. Its annual production has remained constant for the past decade around 1,250,000 barrels (199,000 m3) after being revitalized in the late 2000s. Part of this revitalization involved Crimson Resources initiating a waterflood in the Etchegoin Formation. They saw good response and sold the asset to Occidental Petroleum. CRC continued the development of the waterflood, but also tested the viability of the Monterey Formation. The Monterey Formation at Buena Vista has proven to be a viable target and is currently being developed.