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• the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov, who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?
• the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas-producing oil field in California, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
• the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in California, and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
• after having over 912 million barrels of oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the Coalinga Oil Field, the eighth-largest oil field in California, is close to exhaustion?
• Rasau Field, one of the two onshore oil fields of Brunei, was discovered in 1979 but oil production only started in 1983?
• treated wastewater from Kern River Oil Field, the fifth-largest U.S. oil field, is used to irrigate crops in the San Joaquin Valley in California?
• Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there?
• Cymric Oil Field has the fastest-growing production of any oil field in California?
• recovery of the oil in Spraberry Trend, an oil field ranked third in the U.S. by total proven reserves, is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?