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Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV (French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-]), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is a global technology company. As of 2022, it is both the world's largest oilfield services company and the world's leader in digital solutions for subsurface and surface engineering.
The California oil and gas industry has been a major economic and cultural component of the US state of California for over a century. Oil production was a minor factor in the 19th century, with kerosene replacing whale oil and lubricants becoming essential to the machine age. Oil became a major California industry in the 20th century with the ...
Coordinates: 34.3146°N 119.2685°W. The Ventura Oil Field in Ventura County, California. Other oil fields are shown in dark gray. The Ventura Oil Field is a large and currently productive oil field in the hills immediately north of the city of Ventura in southern California in the United States. It is bisected by California State Route 33, the ...
All oil drilling into the South Ellwood Offshore field takes place from Platform Holly, about two miles (3 km) offshore in state waters 34.3898°N 119.9065°W. Oil wells on wharves built out over the ocean, Summerland oil field, 1902. Offshore oil and gas in California provides a significant portion of the state's petroleum production.
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.
City of Industry, California. The City of Industry is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is almost entirely industrial, containing over 3,000 businesses employing 67,000 people, [8] with only 264 residents as of the 2020 census, making it the third least populous city in the state.
An 1873 map shows Tulare Lake prior to shrinkage from large-scale agriculture.. The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. [4] It extends from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in the north to the Tehachapi Mountains in the south, and from the California coastal ranges (Diablo and Temblor) in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.
GNIS feature IDs. 277575, 2411407. Website. cityofpetaluma.net. Petaluma is a city in Sonoma County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its population was 59,776 according to the 2020 census.