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Old 12-02-2009, 01:42 PM
 
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A move may be in the works, folks, and I don't know much about California.

I will be working as an attorney either in private practice handling upstream oil and gas work or at an exploration and production company. All things being equal, I'd prefer to avoid living in some soulless suburb. Please share the names of any nice, safe cities with lively walkable historic districts/downtowns and oilpatch law jobs. The combination may be more difficult to come by than I imagine.
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:48 PM
 
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Stockton
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Old 12-02-2009, 01:49 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Not knowing what an 'oilpatch law job' is, I'm going to also vote Stockton, for the time being.
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Old 12-02-2009, 02:19 PM
 
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Hahahaha...thanks, folks. I needed a good chuckle!

Stockton might not have the safety factor that I'm looking for. Is there any crude oil production going on in that area?
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:06 PM
 
Location: RSM
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Long Beach has some oil production(onshore and offshore), and there are on and off again discussions about building an LNG terminal in the port as well. Long Beach, Seal Beach, and a few other coastal cities nearby may work as starting points.
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:35 PM
 
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Basically most of that work will be around Bakersfield or Los Angeles.

There are natural gas fields north of Sacramento but I don't know where the companies are actually based.

Maybe this map might help you get a geographic feel for things, it shows the locations of all oil and gas fields in California as of 2001. As you can see heavy concentration of oil fields around LA and Bakersfield.
ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/oil/maps/Map_S-1.pdf (broken link)
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:52 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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Most of the oil wells in CA are around Bakersfield, Taft, LA and up to Fresno. Check out Clovis near Fresno.

www.clovischamber.com/visitors_guide/index.aspx
www.clovisoldtown.com (broken link)
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Anaheim
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Default some possible Orange County oil locations

Try Brea. It started life as an oil town over a hundred years ago and still has a few working machines ('brea' means 'tar' in Spanish). Placentia has a few as well. Both are next to each other.

Brea has the more walkable downtown. As quoted above, so do Seal Beach and Long Beach.

Do you have contacts where you are now that can point you to someone "in the biz"?

Last edited by mrsltd; 12-02-2009 at 05:43 PM.. Reason: grammar correction
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Old 12-02-2009, 05:51 PM
 
Location: Anaheim
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Further note on Brea: if you want the historic side, north or south/southeast/southwest of the current downtown (Brea Blvd. between Ash and Imperial) is better. Much of Brea's older area was torn out in '92 and '93. There are a number of older areas still, but even Brea Blvd. south of Imperial Hwy has had blocks razed and lofts erected for the art community I'm sure the south side desperately needs.
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