Trump does it again! Thank you President Trump. I don't understand part of this, perhaps TatorTodd will chime in please.

"Sable Offshore reveals huge amounts of oil pumping out from Santa Barbara

Sable Offshore officially commenced oil sales through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System Sunday, marking the first time the network has moved crude oil since a major spill idled operations over a decade ago.

Sable Chairman and CEO Jim Flores hailed the development as a win for US energy security.

Sable is proud to announce oil sales through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System to Chevron,” he said. “In doing so, we are providing American oil from American soil through an American pipeline to an American refinery for American consumers and the United States military.

The milestone comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom and the federal government remain locked in a high-stakes legal battle over whether the Trump administration overstepped its authority by using emergency powers to force the restart.

The company announced oil began flowing on March 29, with the pipeline successfully filled from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station at a rate exceeding 50,000 barrels per day. That is roughly 66,000 full tanks of gas.

The restart signals a significant step forward for domestic energy production in the region.

The company, formerly owned by ExxonMobil, had its oil platforms — Harmony, Heritage and Hondo —cease production in May 2015 following the Plains All American Pipeline Line 901 rupture, which spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude along the Gaviota Coast.

The pipeline failure halted transport for the Santa Barbara County platforms, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

Now, years later, Platform Harmony is producing around 22,000 barrels of oil per day. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has completed its final pre-restart inspection of Platform Heritage, clearing the way for operations to resume.

Production at Heritage is expected to begin immediately, with output projected to surpass 30,000 barrels per day, according to Sable’s press release.

Sable also outlined plans to bring Platform Hondo online by the end of the second quarter of 2026, adding an anticipated 10,000 barrels per day to overall production capacity.

Earlier this month, the company announced it was resuming operations after the Trump administration invoked the Defense Production Act to force the restart of Sable Offshore Corp.’s California pipeline, bypassing certain state environmental and safety restrictions.

The order directed the company to resume operations of the Santa Ynez Unit.

In response, California filed a lawsuit challenging the order, arguing it “illegally asserts exclusive jurisdiction over two California onshore oil pipelines” and prioritizes “donors over our people and communities.”

“The Attorney General is seeking to halt Sable’s unlawful restart of California’s onshore oil pipelines that are subject to state regulation and oversight,” Rob Bonta’s office told the California Post.

While the lawsuit is ongoing, oil and petroleum giant Chevron is already purchasing Sable’s oil.


This also comes amid an oil shortage in the US, especially in California, where the state appears to be more severely affected by the war in Iran and its subsequent impact on global oil flows.

Chevron also has issued a stark warning to Californians, urging Newsom to declare a state of emergency amid high gas prices, declining oil production, and increasing strain on drivers.

“California has had, I think, very poor energy policy,” Chevron executive Andy Walz told The New York Times. “They’ve put a climate agenda ahead of reliable and affordable energy, and the consequences of that are that energy in California — any form of it — is unaffordable.”

California is seeing gas prices soar well above the US average.

The average price of a gallon of regular gas in the Golden State reached $5.77 Monday about $1.20 more than a month prior, according to the American Automobile Association. The national average stood at $3.9.

The Post has reached out to the governor’s office for comment, as well as the attorney general, as oil flows again through California waters for the first time while the lawsuit remains pending in court.

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Suck it Gavin. The government of california is, IMHO, a criminal enterprise.

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Perhaps they can get the Phillip 66 Los Angeles refinery back online and save the Valero Benecia Refinery.
The people of Nevada and Arizona are being screwed by Gavin and his cronies, there are no refineries in Arizona or Nevada. (Nevada technically has a refinery but is a very small one and it only produces asphalt).

California is importing gasoline from China. Bring back American jobs and American self reliance of our own oil and fuel. Especially all the US Military bases in California who need reliable steady fuel supplies.

Up yours Gavin!!!!
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Originally posted by OKCGene:
I don't understand part of this, perhaps TatorTodd will chime in please.

Which part? I can explain crude oil to refinery logistics, restarting shutdown production, restarting pipelines, etc. but I cannot explain California Democrat "logic"

A few years ago, I was at an oil & gas event and in the break room somebody was streaming a public hearing in Santa Barbara on restarting this. I did watch a few minutes and my two takeaways were:

One member of the Chamber of Commerce absolutely eviscerated the assclown running the hearing who had formerly been in the state legislator, cosponsored a bill for the pipeline to restart, the bill passed, and now he's following the political winds and caving to the don't restart crowd. The man's main point was what kind of business investment climate will we have if a company follows the laws to the letter and still can't operate their business?

the cognitive dissonance of the people giving public comment was eye opening. They thought they were imeediately shutting down all oil & gas and green energy was going to magically and immediately replace it 100%.

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"National average" prices would look a lot better if California weren't fouling it up.

Imagine in a year when Gavin is running on “hey I sued to stop gas prices from coming down”

And trump will get no credit for it from Californians.

I was out and about yesterday and I glanced at a gas station sign. It was $6.35 for regular 87. It went up from there.

I’m very happy to be driving my EV but that’s another ongoing discussion in the forum.

Go Trump go is what I say…

Newsome is embarrassing and so is my congressional representative Swalwell.

I've worked a little bit with the old Exxon onshore processing plant just up the coast from Santa Barbara. Those three platforms (really all the platforms along the coast) are some the highest oil cut wells in the west (compared to the water and steam flooding in Long Beach and Bakersfield).

The yahoos of Santa Barbara County have held the platform owners hostage for nearly a decade. One of my customers had been put in charge of decommissioning them. I'm glad Sable is giving the big middle finder to Santa Barbara and that Chevron El Segundo is agreeing to take the crude to process.

Yes it's a drop in the bucket of what the state needs, but I do love the attitude of business owners/CEO who tell the state to pound sand.

If you're interested a good interviews regarding CA energy policy, check out the California Insider on Youtube. They interview a number of business operators in the oil and gas, refining, and pipeline industries who describe the near-impossible business environment they're under and just how ignorant or evil the state legislature/agencies are.

Lastly, I don't see of lot of Santa Barbarans selling the G wagons and Ferraris to protest the oil being produced and shipped.

Glad to hear that's pumping again.

For context, here's an article from 2015, just after it was shut down The article shows the economic impact the production flow was generating at the time - current oil price is about about twice what it was in 2015, so for a rough estimate of 2026 economics, double the numbers in that article, quoted below:

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Exxon was on pace to make an estimated $636 million in Santa Barbara County in 2015
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Public schools, roads and other public services benefit from the property tax revenues generated from big oil. If the status quo remains, Santa Barbara County public schools would miss out an estimated $24 million over a three-year period, the Santa Barbara County General Fund wouldn’t receive around $8 million and other public services would lose out on about $6.3 million