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The opening paragraph says that the field is the "third largest" in the US, but "largest" here can refer to any one or more of a number of measures:
To which does the article refer? anyone know? Plazak ( talk) 15:25, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Field Trip to the Midway-Sunset Oil Field, California, 5/31/2018. Author is a Ph.D. student whose family lives in the area. For the article, author documents the Lakeview No. 1 gusher of 1910, that spilled & largely wasted around 9.4 million gals of crude oil in an 18-month period, before the well was brought under control, apparently by a cave-in. -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 04:38, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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The opening paragraph says that the field is the "third largest" in the US, but "largest" here can refer to any one or more of a number of measures:
To which does the article refer? anyone know? Plazak ( talk) 15:25, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Field Trip to the Midway-Sunset Oil Field, California, 5/31/2018. Author is a Ph.D. student whose family lives in the area. For the article, author documents the Lakeview No. 1 gusher of 1910, that spilled & largely wasted around 9.4 million gals of crude oil in an 18-month period, before the well was brought under control, apparently by a cave-in. -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 04:38, 10 April 2019 (UTC)