4 Oil Wells Hidden in Plain Sight in L.A. Is that an office building? Nope. Author: Zoie Matthew. Publish date: Feb 5, 2018. Oil wells are hidden all over Los Angeles, some more cleverly than others.

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.

The region’s output is not what it once was, but there are still more than 1,000 active or idle wells in L.A., city officials say. “Oil drilling in Los Angeles might have made sense in the ...

The problem of oil and gas operations situated near people’s homes and essential infrastructure isn’t limited to Los Angeles alone. An April analysis by investigative non-profit FracTracker ...

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. Plugging work itself can cause problems, including spills.

The decision came as welcome news to Los Angeles activists who have raised the alarm about oil wells hidden throughout the city for years. The wells are a public health ill .

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 ...

Wooden oil derricks once forested the Los Angeles landscape like stars along Hollywood Boulevard.<@SM><@SM><TAB>Long before Cecil B. DeMille made his first flickering feature, Edward Doheny began ...

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.

With oil prices so high, all over Los Angeles people are digging, or restarting, wells. Beverly Hills is one of the city's most fertile fields, producing nearly a million barrels a year.

But drilling is also a health problem, particularly in Los Angeles, where thousands of oil wells dot the city. When California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a goal to phase out oil drilling, he ...

As community groups press the city to force closure of old wells, they often are countered by labor groups and the industry, which repeatedly have challenged Los Angeles’ authority to go further than ...