OIL FIELD

In the early 1900’s dense ‘forests’ of oil derricks covered the Los Angeles and Orange County CA basins from Downtown Los Angeles to West Los Angeles, Signal Hill, Long Beach, Huntington Beach and Yorba Linda--to name a few. There are still some signs of times gone by with operational oil wells here and there spotted in parking lots and back yards throughout the south land. These oil fields not only produced large volumes of oil, but with oil well drilling came a path to the earth’s surface for methane gas, hydrogen sulfide and other Volatile Organic Compounds.