Venoco, Inc.,
Venoco Corporation, or
Venoco, is a private American
oil and gas exploration and production corporation. It maintains an office in
Carpinteria, California, and its corporate headquarters are in
Denver. Predominantly active in California, it is a large natural gas producer in the
Sacramento Valley and produces oil and gas both onshore and offshore of southern and central California. The company has fields and prospects in
Santa Barbara County,
Monterey County,
Kern County,
San Luis Obispo County, and
Ventura County. Venoco owns and operates the
Santa Clara Avenue Oil Field in Ventura County as well as the
South Ellwood Oil Field offshore of
Santa Barbara, the Santa Clara Offshore Oil Field and the Sockeye Oil Field in the
Santa Barbara Channel, west of
Ventura.