Drilling down: Huntington oil site may be Hermosa’s future
Louis Zylstra, head of E & B Natural Resources facilities in the Los Angeles area, points to the company’s facility in Huntington Beach. Photo . Hermosans wondering what an oil site in their city would look like can get a good idea by driving 45 minutes south to Huntington Beach. The Argus oil facility in Huntington is operated by E & B Natural Resources and sits within a residential community, much like the proposed drill site at the Hermosa Beach city maintenance yard. Like Hermosa’s potential site, it contains 30 wells and pumps for directional drilling to extract oil from 166 acres surrounding. Louis Zylstra runs the site and is the head of all the E & B facilities in the Los Angeles area. While giving a tour of the property, he immediately mentioned the low noise level. “That hum you hear is as loud as it gets,” he said. “We should call the dog catcher because the loudest thing in the neighborhood is that dog barking.” The only piece of equipment on the site that produces much noise is a water injection pump, which is responsible for the hum. Its sound clocks in at 90 decibels, about the level of a lawn mower. The pump is surrounded by a sound-mitigating 35-foot wall leaving…
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