Old wells also pose a risk of blowouts — and, ... The pair, a legacy of the 1,100 wells once part of the Los Angeles City Oil Field, cost the state $1.2 million to seal.

The blowout occurred during drilling in the Athens neighborhood in Los Angeles. The original caption in the Oct. 3, 1975 Los Angeles Times for this two photo combo reported: TABLEAUX IN MUD ...

The effort to shut down the city’s wells is part of a region-wide movement to push oil and gas drilling out of Los Angeles County. In 2021, similar measures were passed to ban drilling in Culver ...

Oil drilling in Los Angeles. The first step was a door-to-door survey of 813 neighbors from 203 households near wells in Las Cienegas oilfield, just south and west of downtown.

Los Angeles city’s new move not only bans new oil wells but also directs all oil companies operating in the city to plan to shut down in a maximum of 20 years.

A scientific report released this year found more than 30,000 Los Angeles-area residents live within 300 feet (92 meters) of an oil well, a center spokesman said.

Los Angeles was once a booming oil town. Many of its oilfields are now played out but it still has several productive ones. According to the city controller's office there were 780 active and 287 ...

Los Angeles County has thousands of active oil wells, but it turns out that the ones in the LA basin—as in, LA's urban center—might not be getting the kind of oversight they need and legally ...

Over 1,600 active and idle oil and gas wells in the county could be shuttered after the 5 ... Companies have been drilling for oil in Los Angeles since the late-1890s and the area quickly became a ...

Los Angeles Takes Major Step Toward Banning New Oil and Gas Drilling "This is a momentous step forward for Los Angeles, and a clear message we are sending to Big Oil,'' said Councilman Mitch O ...

Near downtown Los Angeles, a developer is building dozens of apartments in Echo Park on property that contains deserted oil wells. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Statewide, 2,425 oil and gas ...

The effort to shut down the city's wells is part of a region-wide movement to push oil and gas drilling out of Los Angeles County. In 2021, similar measures were passed to ban drilling in Culver ...