Twenty-Five Hills

The Town of Taft is in the Southern California oil area. It seems as if everyone in town works in the oil fields.

South of town is an area called "Twenty-Five Hills". I suppose there are 25 hills there, but I had to drive through the area to take a look. The whole area is covered with oil wells, pump houses, compression stations, power distribution centers, and miles of pipes. Roads and trails appear to wind everywhere through the area so they can get trucks and equipment to all the wells.
















Everywhere you look, there are miles and miles of pipes transporting the oil to collection stations where is is pumped on to distilling and refining plants in still larger pipes. Most of the pipes appear to be stainless steel.



I was totally fascinated with this concentration of oil wells and equipment. It's all a very strange sight for a boy raised in the Midwest.

I understand a Hollywood movie is to be filmed in this area soon and the name of the film will be "Twenty-Five Hills". Look for it a your local theatre.