page_title: Cymric Oil Field
section_title: Setting
hierarchical_section_title: Cymric Oil Field / Setting
caption_attribution_description: English: Oilfield operations at Cymric Oil Field, Kern County, California.
context_page_description: The Cymric Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County, California in the United States. While only the 14th-largest oil field in California in total size, in terms of total remaining reserves it ranks fifth, with the equivalent of over 119 million barrels still in the ground. Production at Cymric has been increasing faster than at any other California oil field.
context_section_description: The Cymric field is in the Temblor Valley, along the west side of State Route 33, between that highway and the Temblor Range. It is north of the town of McKittrick, which is at the junction of State Route 58 and 33. The field is approximately 11 miles (18 km) long, from northwest to southeast, and up to 2 miles (3.2 km) across, including several smaller discontiguous areas which are considered geologically to be part of the main field. Elevations on the field range from approximately 600 to 1,000 feet (180 to 300 m).
  Adjacent to the Cymric Field on the south are the smaller fields of McKittrick, Belgian Anticline and Railroad Gap, and on the east, along Route 33, is the small Monument Junction field. The enormous South Belridge Field, one of the largest in California, begins about 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Cymric's northernmost extent.
  The local climate is arid to semi-arid, and the predominant native groundcover is grassland and low scrub. In many areas of active oil field development, almost all vegetation has been removed.
caption: Oil field operations at Cymric, including several nodding donkey oil wells. Most vegetation has been removed from the area of active operations.
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