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Oil Sales from California’s Santa Ynez Pipeline Begin

Mar 30, 2026

Sable Offshore said on Monday it has begun selling oil from its Santa Ynez Pipeline System offshore California to Chevron, after resuming crude transportation earlier this month.Shares were up more than 3% in premarket trading.The pipeline system, which runs along California's Gaviota Coast, had been shut since a 2015 oil spill that polluted miles of coastline, killed wildlife and damaged local fisheries…

BOEM Issues Notice of Intent for Offshore Well Stimulation Work

Mar 17, 2026

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed update to the Santa Clara Unit Development and Production Plan, which includes the use of hydraulic fracturing on 16 existing wells at Platform Gilda…

Sable Offshore Restarts Santa Ynez Pipeline After Trump Emergency Order

Mar 16, 2026

Sable Offshore on Monday said it had begun pumping oil on a long-disputed pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries after emergency orders from the Trump administration directing the restart.The restart…

Trump Administration Directs Sable Offshore to Restore Santa Ynez Operations

Mar 15, 2026

The Trump administration on Friday directed Sable Offshore to restore oil drilling operations off the southern California coast, the U.S. Energy Department said.The move aims to restart oil production at a cluster of offshore platforms as fuel prices continue to rise in the wake of the war on Iran…

Trump to Invoke Emergency Law for California Oil Producer

Mar 11, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to invoke emergency law for Sable Offshore as it looks to restart production from a cluster of offshore platforms in California, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter…

BOEM Advances Leasing Process for Offshore California

Feb 26, 2026

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced its intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for proposed oil and gas lease sales in the Northern, Central and Southern California Planning Areas of the Outer Continental Shelf…

Trump Calls Out California, UK Energy Deal

Feb 16, 2026

President Donald Trump denounced a clean energy agreement between the United Kingdom and California Governor Gavin Newsom hours after it was signed on Monday, Politico reported.In an interview with the outlet, Trump said it was 'inappropriate' for Britain to be dealing with the Democratic governor…

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