The oil field is in two parts, the Buena Vista Hills Area and the Buena Vista Front Area, both roughly linear features about long, running parallel about apart, and each being across, and trending from southeast to northwest. The town of Taft is adjacent to the southwest, about halfway along the field. The oil field underlies the Buena Vista Hills, a low range with a maximum elevation of , in their entirety, and the Buena Vista Front Area is mostly in the Buena Vista Valley, which separates the Buena Vista Hills from the larger Elk Hills range to the north. State Route 33 parallels the Buena Vista Field about to the southwest, and State Route 119 cuts across the field to the northeast, towards Bakersfield.