Company type | Public company |
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NYSE: CRC S&P 600 Component | |
Industry | Petroleum industry |
Founded | April 2014 |
Headquarters | Long Beach, California |
Key people | Mark A. (Mac) McFarland, Chairman Francisco J. Leon, CEO |
Products | Petroleum Natural Gas Natural Gas Liquids |
Production output | 100 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (610,000 GJ) per day (2021) |
Revenue | $1.889 billion (2021) |
$612 million (2021) | |
Total assets | $3.846 billion (2021) |
Total equity | $1.688 billion (2021) |
Number of employees | 970 (2021) |
Website | crc |
Footnotes /references [1] |
California Resources Corporation is an American energy corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in California. It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in Long Beach, California. Its mineral acreage holdings in California constitute the largest privately held position in the state. [1]
The company has conventional primary, enhanced oil recovery, and unconventional operations in the San Joaquin Basin, Ventura Basin, and Los Angeles Basin and dry gas production in the Sacramento Basin. [1] Its largest holding is the 47,000-acre Elk Hills Oil Field, 20 miles west of Bakersfield, California in the San Joaquin Valley. [1] It is also operates the Wilmington Oil Field in partnership with California, several smaller fields in Los Angeles County, and the Huntington Beach Oil Field in Orange County, California. As of December 31, 2021, the company had 480 million barrels of oil equivalent (2.9×109 GJ) of estimated proved reserves, of which 71% was petroleum, 20% was natural gas, and 9% was natural gas liquids. [1]
The company was formed in April 2014 as a corporate spin-off of Occidental Petroleum. [1] [2] In April 2018, the company acquired the interest in the Elk Hills Oil Field previously held by Chevron Corporation for $460 million and 2.85 million shares. [3] [4] In July 2020, the company filed bankruptcy with $5 billion in debt; it emerged from bankruptcy in October 2020. [5] In March 2021, Mark A. (“Mac”) McFarland was appointed CEO. [6] The company benefited financially from the 2021 Texas power crisis. [7] [8] In February, 2024, they announced a $2.1 billion, all-stock purchase agreement for Aera Energy. [9]
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The South Belridge Oil Field is a large oil field in northwestern Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, about forty miles west of Bakersfield. Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative production of over 2,000 million barrels (320,000,000 m3) of oil equivalent at the end of 2023, it is the fourth-largest oil field in California, after the Midway-Sunset Oil Field, Kern River Oil Field, and Wilmington Oil Field, and is the sixth-most productive field in the United States. Its estimated remaining reserves, as of the end of 2008, were around 494 million barrels (78,500,000 m3) out of approximately 10.2 billion barrels of original oil in place, and it had 6,253 active wells. The principal operator on the field was Aera Energy LLC, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil. Additionally, the field included the only onshore wells in California owned and operated by ExxonMobil.
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