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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) – An 800,000-gallon oil spill in central California may have begun when teams attempted to recapture an abandoned well.
KQED News said the company held a briefing Friday on the seepage that began in May at an oil field in Kern County, west of Bakersfield.
Chevron believed that the spill was the result of efforts to remove aging cement plugs from its non-producing wells and replace them.
The company said the initial flows came from a previously damaged well that was being reintroduced. Chevron said more oil had been spilled in June when crews had done pressure testing before trying to complete the work of replacing the cement in the well.
Chevron said that the oil had inked only about one acre of land and that 90% of the spilled material had been recovered.
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This story has been corrected to credit KQED News and not KQED-TV.
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