File:Pico Canyon Oil Field Well No. 4, Chevron.jpg
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English: 1966 REGISTERED HISTORIC LANDMARK
FIRST COMMERCIAL OIL WELL IN CALIFORNIA CSO-4 PICO-4 National Register of Historic Places Collection 66000212 Taken Sept. 2 2018 state historical marker (no. 543) “On this site stands cso-4 (pico-4), California’s first commercially productive well. it was spudded in early 1876, under the direction of Demetrius G. Scofield, later to become first president of standard oil company of California, and was completed at a depth of 300 feet on September 26, 1876, for an initial flow of 30 barrels of oil a day. Later in the same year the well as deepened to 600 feet using what was perhaps the first steam rig employed in oil well drilling in California upon this second completion it produced at a rate of 150 barrels a day and is still producing after seventy-seven years. The success of this well prompted formation of the pacific coast oil company a predecessor of standard oil company of California and led to the construction of the states first refinery nearby it was not only the discovery well of the Newhall field but was indeed a powerful stimulus to the subsequent development of the California petroleum industry. Rededicated June 6, 1950 Standard Oil Company of California Petroleum Production Pioneers INC.”
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