Sources and Further Reading
General Sources
California Department of Conservation, Geologic Energy Management Division or CalGEM (formerly Division of Oil, Gas, & Geothermal Resources or DOGGR), Well Records. They are available on the internet here. You will need the well API number.
Division of Oil & Gas, "California Oil and Gas Fields, Vol II, Southern, Central Coastal, and Offshore California", Pub. No. TR 12, Sacramento, Third Edition 1991.
Editor, California Oil World, "Newhall-Potrero Field Study Report", California Oil World, April 5, 1938, Vol. 31 No. 7, pp. 9-11.
Engineering Editor, Oil and Gas Journal, "Service on New Fields", Oil and Gas Journal, August 4, 1938, Vol. 37 No. 12, pp. 35-36.
Engineering Editor, Oil and Gas Journal, "Service on Active Fields", Oil and Gas Journal, November 6, 1941, Vol. 40 No. 26, pp. 198-199.
Engineering Editor, Oil and Gas Journal, "Instrumentation of process equipment and tankage prevents spills and overfilling", Oil and Gas Journal, August 31, 1950, Vol. 49 No. 17, pp. 66-67.
Graybeal, Oran A., "Performance of Primary Pressure Control in the First, Second, and Third Zones, Newhall-Potero Field", Oil and Gas Journal, June 9, 1949, Vol. 48 No. 5, pp. 86-91.
Graybeal, Oran A., "California's Prolific Potrero Oil Field", Oil and Gas Journal, July 12, 1951, Vol. 50 No. 10, pp. 80-81.
Hodges, F.C. and Murray-Aaron, E.R., "Newhall-Potrero, Aliso Canyon, Del Valle, and Oak Canyon Oil Fields", in Summary of Operations, Califoria Oil Fields, Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, San Francisco, Ca., Jan-June, 1943, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 5-28.
Lee, A.T., "Newhall-Potrero Oil Field, Los Angeles County, California", A.A.P.G.- S.E.G. - S.E.P.M. Field Trip Guide Book with Discussion of Several California Oil Fields, Los Angeles, California, March 24-27, 1947, pp. 35-37.
Loofbourow, J.S., "Newhall-Potrero Oil Field", AAPG SEPM SEG Guidebook, Field Trip Routes, Oil Fields, Geology, Joint Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March, 1952, pp. 52-56.
Loomis, A.G., Fried, A.N., & Crowell, D.C., "Recovery of Oil in California by Secondary Methods - Part II. Los Angeles Basin and Coastal Oil Fields", Report of Investigations 4887, Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, May 1952, pp. 1-45.
Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1936; August 8, 1936; March 25, 1937; August 25, 1941; February 17, 1950; June 20, 1950; January 30, 1962; October 29, 1968.
Los Angeles County Recorders Office, Leases, Book 13796, pp. 264-275, Newhall Land and Farming Company (Lessor) to the Barnsdall Oil Company (Lessee), Recorded November 30, 1935.
Mefferd, M.G., "Newhall-Potrero Oil Field", in Summary of Operations, Califoria Oil Fields, Fifty-First Annual Report of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, San Francisco, Ca., 1965, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 41-51.
Museum of Ventura County, Collection of Maps, Map M3795, Rancho San Francisco as partitioned by the 1st District Court, L.F. Cooper, Engineer, 1870.
Newhall, Ruth Waldo, A California Legend: The Newhall Land and Farming Company, Newhall Land and Farming Co., Valencia, Ca., 1992, pp. 139-143.
Newhall, Ruth Waldo, The Newhall Ranch: The Story of The Newhall Land & Farming Company, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca., 1958, pp. 89-95.
Newhall Signal, September 30, 1954; September 19, 1972; February 3, 1975, January 8, 1988; January 10, 1988; January 17, 1988; February 1, 1989.
Porter, William W., "Geology and Economic Significance of California's 1935-1938 Oil Discoveries", World Petroleum, February 1939, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 50-52.
San Francisco Examiner, January 14, 1948.
Santa Barbara News Press, February 9, 1938; March 26, 1937; June 28, 1951.
Winkle, W. Van & Mignotte, H. X., "Implosive Shock Treatment of Injection Wells", Journal of Petroleum Geology, February, 1964, pp. 128-132.
Newhall Oil and Development Company
Articles of Incorporation of the Newhall Oil and Development Company, Los Angeles County Incorporation Records, Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
Boundary map of NODC property created from PLSS Map Viewer website.
Los Angeles County Recorder's Office, Deeds, Newhall Land and Farming Company to Newhall Oil and Development Company, Book 1322, Pages 299-301.
Los Angeles Times, December 14, 1913.
Santa Ana Daily Register, September 26, 1913.
Ventura Weekly Democrat, September 12, 1913.
Gasoline Plant
Albright, J.C., "Gasoline Plant Emphasizes Compactness", Petroleum Engineer, September 1949, Vol. 21 No. 10, pp. c32-c38.
Engineering Editor, Oil and Gas Journal, "L.P.G. Flood Combined with Storage in California Project", Oil and Gas Journal, July 7, 1957, Vol. 55 No. 27, pp. 74-75.
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 9, 1945.
Newhall Signal, January 29, 1948.
Welch, Melroy, "Barnsdall's Newhall Potrero Gas and Gasoline Plant", California Oil World, November 1949, Vol. 42 No. 21, pp. 3-15.
Welch, Melroy, "Design and Construction Details on Barnsdall's Newhall-Potrero Gas and Gasoline Plant", Oil and Gas Journal, December 1, 1949, Vol. 43 No. 30, pp. 73-74, pp.85-87.
Brine Disposal
Stormont, D.H., "Brine Injection Gaining", Oil & Gas Journal, September 22, 1952, Vol. 51 No. 20, pp. 76-77.
Stormont, D.H., "Automatic Brine-Disposal Plant Small but Efficient", Oil & Gas Journal, January 12, 1953, Vol. 51 No. 36, p. 114.
Ferguson Lease
California Oil World News Service, "Field Development", California Oil World, April 1947, Vol. 40 No. 7, pp. 27-28.
Los Angeles County Recorders Office, Leases, Book 18698, pp. 384-393, Newhall Land and Farming Company (Lessor) and C.G. Willis (Lessee), Recorded September 15, 1941.
Los Angeles County Recorders Office, Leases, Book 18750, pp. 210-211, Lease Amendment, Newhall Land and Farming Company (Lessor) and the C.G. Willis (Lessee), Recorded September 15, 1941.
Los Angeles Daily News, February 16, 1943.
Los Angeles Times, January 14, 1943; April 6, 1947; February 18, 1951; September 28, 1951; October 9, 1958; May 9, 1961; May 9, 1961.
Newhall Signal, March 6, 1942.
Olson v. Basin Oil Co., Opinion, Docket Nos. 20919 & 20933, October 26, 1955. This case provided some details on C.G. Willis' history before the Ferguson lease.
Santa Barbara News, December 9, 1942.
Geology and Structure
Edmundson, James W., "A Study of the Subsurface Conditions Prevailing in the Newhall-Potrero Oil Field", Thesis, In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1947.
Gay, Thomas E. and Hoffman, Samuel R., "Mines and Mineral Deposits of Los Angeles County, California", in California Journal of Mines and Geology Volume 50, Numbers 3 and 4, July-October 1954, pp. 595-596, State of California, Division of Mines, San Francisco.
Gordon, Stuart, "Ventura Basin Oil Generation, Timing, Migration, and Entrapment", adapted from oral presentation given at AAPG Pacific Section Convention: 2020 Vision, April 4-8, 2020 (Cancelled). Found on AAPG Datapages website.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and California Department of Fish and Game, Newhall Ranch - Draft EIR, April 2009, Section 4.13 - Geology and Geological Resources. Actual map source was Allan E. Seward Engineering Geology, Inc. EIR Document found here.
Winterer, E.L. & Durham, D.L., "Geology of Southeastern Ventura Basin Los Angeles County California", Shorter Contributions to General Geology, Geological Survey Professional Paper 334-H, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1962.
Yeats, R.S., Huftile, G.J. & Stitt, L., "Late Cenozoic Tectonics of the East Ventura Basin, Transverse Ranges, California", American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, Vol. 78, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 1040-1074.
Dump Site
Newhall Signal, September 18, 1985; September 25, 1985; September 29, 1985; December 18, 1985, February 2, 1986; February 19, 1986; May 4, 1986; June 15, 1986, June 20, 1986; August 24, 1986; September 7, 1986; December 12, 1986; June 12, 1987.
Northridge Earthquake
Catchings, Goldman, Lee, Rymer, & Ponti, "Faulting Apparently Related to the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake and Possible Co-seismic Origin of Surface Cracks in Potrero Canyon, Los Angeles County, California" in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol 88, No. 6, December 1998, pp.1379-1391.
Jaasma, Catchings, Goldman, Rymer, & Lee, "Seismic Reflection and Refraction Investigations in Potrero Canyon, Los Angeles County, California", U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 97-283, 1997, 17 pages.
Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1994, "New Findings Move Rupture Zone North of First Location".
Modesto Bee, March 7, 1994, "Scientists Probe Nature of Earthquakes".
Newhall Signal, August 18, 1998, "Geologists: Ranch Faults are Typical".
Rymer, M.J. & Fumal, T.E., "Distribution and Recurrence of Surface Fractures in Potrero Canyon Associated with the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake", Special Publication 116, The Northridge, California, Earthquake of 17 January 1994, Edited by Woods & Seiple, Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, California, 1995, pp. 133-146.
Stewart, Bray, Seed, & Sitar, Editors, June 1994, "Preliminary Report on the Principal Geotechnical Aspects of the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake", Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Report No. UCB/EERC-94/08, pp. 106-123.
Thousand Oaks News Chronicle, May 28, 1994, "Making the Most of a Good Quake".
U.S. Geological Survey, Response to an Urban Earthquake, Northridge '94, "Investigations at Potrero Canyon", in Open-File Report 96-263, 1996, Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), pp. 63-64.
Ventura County Star Free Press, March 7, 1994, "Canyon Offering Quake Clues".
Newhall Ranch
Entrix, Inc., "Hazards Evaluation of the Newhall Ranch Habitat", Project Number 3109016, Entrix Environmental Consultants, Ventura, California, September 30, 2008. (Can be found on the LA County Department of Regional Planning website.)
Newhall Signal, January 10, 1988; February 1, 1989; March 30, 1989; June 21, 1994; June 21, 1995; February 19, 1997; August 16, 1998; September 17, 1999; August 28, 2001; July 22, 2003; September 5, 2003; January 28, 2004; March 27, 2005; March 26, 2006; January 4, 2007; August 11, 2011; April 8, 2012.
Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1994; July 22, 2003; May 29, 2003; January 3, 2007; July 19, 2017; August 26, 2017; September 26, 2017; August 7, 2021.
Simi Valley Star and Enterprise, February 26, 1995.
Ventura County Star Free Press, June 22, 1994.