Drive-By: Oilfield

California, September / October 2011: Round Mountain Road, China Grade Loop, State Route 33, 7th Standard Road, Lost Hills Road.
Video by Hamish Reid, Oakland, CA, www.hamishreid.com
Soundtrack Copyright 2011 Stephen M. Duffy, Oakland, California.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Great video, thank you!

[@thomasbusbee7026]

Been there, Bakersfield area !! Lived there 4 yrs....

[@carlitoab]

Very cool! Impossible to get as excited seeing boring windmills and solar panels.

[@artluna1017]

I've worked at almost all of these leases. I can tell exactly what roads you're on the majority of this video! Good content bro!

[@mohammedalexia9771]

Excellent music

[@CharlesLumia]

Awesome, I've never seen an oil field like that. I'm planning to relocate to California from New York and your website has been very interesting and helpful to me.

[@aalvarezjr0827]

Bakersfield has a lot of oil .

[@jdonw2003]

There is alot of pumpjacks in Texas as well

[@randomdude440]

This is too cool

[@OSUOiler]

Love it.

[@raybin6873]

Curious how much volume of oil gets pulled on each cycle of pump...anybody know?

[@concretekid7310]

Nice job.

[@tedbishop]

From the size of the counter weights, that is a very shallow oil field.

[@HamishReidVideo]

Could be - I worked the refinery side of oil, and don't know much about the fields themselves...

[@raybin6873]

That seems logical...

[@elonmust7470]

Not terribly shallow, those are big units.

[@galifianakismanos8392]

Veri nice video

[@calvinsusanwebber3414]

there fracking them and bringing them back on line

[@thedrivechannel83]

Not sure why this is cool, but it is, maybe cause I'm a car guy...

[@martijnvanbokhoven3463]

Awsome soundtrack. Where can we find this Stephen M. Duffy guy?!

[@tashalynn29]

Let me know when you find him!!

[@tashalynn29]

Ok I have tried Shazam. Tried to look up the soundtrack artist. WHAT IS THE MUSIC? I LOVE IT!!

[@HamishReidVideo]

It's by Stephen M. Duffy, a friend of mine based in Oakland, California...

[@tashalynn29]

@@HamishReidVideo thank you. I tried also looking that up and was not able to find him. I LOVE this piece!

[@Cartoondude135]

Are those white cage-like towers oil derricks?

[@HamishReidVideo]

Some of them are, at least in this video...

[@bradleymcwilliams6348]

Most of what you see there are Work Over Rigs, which hoist the pipe and equipment out of the hole for maintenance. The shot at 1:10-1:15 was a drilling rig. Had a swivel, and they were in the middle of cementing it. Very likely drilling a new well there

[@rosewhite---]

are these all drilling different depths and different grades of oil?

[@raybin6873]

They are not "drilling"...they are pulling the oil up out of the oilfield. The drilling was accomplished a long time ago. This oilfield is likely seeing it's final days of production. Most of the oil has been harvested.

[@rosewhite---]

@@raybin6873 Were these all drilling different depths and different grades of oil?

[@CuriousEarthMan]

@@rosewhite--- different depths some of them, usually bigger pumping units pump from deeper depths. I suppose some oil grades differ here, but probably not that much if it is from the same formation. The "nodding donkeys" or reciprocating pumping units just pump, after well is drilled and completed.

[@rosewhite---]

@@CuriousEarthMan Big oil well project here in UK been stallled by stupid protesters over claims that once the oil is drilled and sold and burned it will make pollution!

[@sophalrusrus9952]

What is this oilfield name

[@sophalrusrus9952]

What’s this oilfield name

[@yenceOfHungary]

"MAORT" 1941 Hungary, my home Zala megye Lovászi... 👋

[@tedbishop]

The coming conversion to all electric vehicles and all electricity being generated by nuclear power plants, will make all oil and petroleum products obsolete and worthless. It will make the air a lot cleaner.

[@tashalynn29]

So if the electric charge runs out while you are driving you can grab a bucket and go get electricity!!

[@gilbertogomesdemouragomes2484]

Brasil. O governo federal vendeu as reservas mas potente que o país tinha é quem tem automóvel sofre com combustível.

[@elonmust7470]

the average tesla has over 700 lbs of petrolium ester based plastics...

[@randycrump5464]

If you were to get rid of oil and gas you better go buy you 40 acres and a couple of mules because the reason our lifestyles are not like the 1800s and earlier is because of oil and gas.

[@wendyharper9454]

I can't help loving these pumps, but in today's climate, the whole area is indicative of badly we are treating our planet.

[@elonmust7470]

The oil is natural...