Northern Oilfields

Northern Oilfields
Information
Type	Oil fields
Owner(s)	Petrochem Night Corp
Region	Badlands
City	Night City outskirts
Appearance(s)
Game(s)	Cyberpunk 2020 Cyberpunk 2077
Book(s)	Night City Sourcebook Cyberpunk 2077 - The Complete Official Guide The Official Digital Artbook of Cyberpunk 2077

The Northern Oilfields (also known as the North Sunrise Oil Fields) are located in the northern Badlands of Night City.

Overview

Located north of Night City, the blackened oilfields expand on a large swath of land devoid of any life, with some parts inside Del Coronado Bay itself. The active oil drills can be seen from afar, though a few areas have long been abandoned. These last ones are filled with run down barracks and disused rusted oil drills, giving visitors a ghostly impression of the place. A portion of Highway 101 runs alongside the coastal area of the oilfields.

History

1990s - 2020s

In the the early 1990s, Petrochem bought the oil drilling rights for an area located near the township of Morro Bay, which extended into the neighboring sea. This occurred around the same time of the 1992 Morro Bay Massacre that destroyed the township and other nearby settlements. Businessman Richard Night patterned with Petrochem and other corporations to form the Coronado Partnership, taking ownership over the whole region surrounding Morro Bay and founding the metropolis of Coronado City in 1994, which was renamed to Night City in 1998.

While the city was being constructed, Petrochem established a number of oil fields to the north, occupying a sizable landmass that was soon filled with oil rigs and extractors that extended into the bay itself. Soon after, Petrochem also built a refinery terminal in South Night City's coast, where they transformed the oil into different products that were later shipped to other parts of the world by using cargo vessels. Another company that had refinery facilities in the area was Prudhoe Pride Oil.

The oil fields around Night City never became any major venture for Petrochem, but they enjoyed a decidedly relaxed regulatory framework. For this reason they only maintained a small, but sizable office building in Corporate Plaza. Although the economy of Night City never relied heavily on the extraction, it did contribute to its origins.

2040s - 2070s

At some point during or after the reconstruction period of Night City, the oil fields became a joint project of Petrochem and Night Corp.

By the 2070s, the smoke-filled and highly toxic oil fields were often seen as an irreparable scar which simply disfigured the face of Night City. A silent, but telling reminder of the metropolis' shady beginnings.

Database Entry

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OIL FIELDS

Located to the north of Night City, for all intents and purposes the oil fields should be part of the Badlands - desolate, barren and thoroughly uninhabitable for decades. The oil-soaked land is as dead as can be, and nothing is likely to change that. The decrepit barracks and rusting, skeletal remains of oil drills leave a ghostly impression - especially at night when they're lit up by the flames of oil puddles.

Behind the Scenes

Though oil was never Night City's main economic driver, it still played a vital role in the city's history. Richard Night chose Coronado Bay as the location for his grand project in part because one of his corporate investors, Petrochem, already owned drilling rights to much of the land. The oil fields north of the city are both testimony and legacy to these insider deals. Pitch-black, smoke-filled and flooded with oil-tainted water, they present a stark contrast both to the dusty, oversaturated, sun-baked feel of other outer districts and the sanitized sheen of City Center visible on the horizon.

 — The Official Digital Artbook of Cyberpunk 2077

Notes

• Johnny Silverhand's lifeless body was said to have been tossed and buried in the oil fields around 2023, though this was never confirmed nor the body was ever found.

Gallery

Concept Art

Oil rig

See Also

• Cyberpunk 2077 Fast Travel/Dataterms