With the price of oil up, the petroleum industry is apparently taking a second look at older wells that aren’t great producers–and trying to get more oil out of them.
Which means they’re returning to cities like Huntington Beach and Signal Hill, which once were famous chiefly for oil–not for their car dealerships or battles to [...]

Oil spilled in San Francisco came from Port of Long Beach
In the most important story on the Nov. 8 spill, LBReport.com says the bunker fuel dumped in San Francisco had its origins in our backyard–and editor Bill Pearl isn’t just talking about the fact that the Hanjin freighter took on its load at the Port [...]