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…
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 marks a major win for the Houston-based oil company in its years-long battle with California regulators and environmental groups, which have sued to stop the Santa Ynez project. Santa Ynez had been shut since 2015 due to an oil spill from the pipelines that Sable has now restarted.
The matter is among the slew of conflicts between U.S. President Donald Trump, who wants to increase domestic fuel production, and California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who has championed his state's climate change policies and is among Trump's most high-profile critics.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright directed Sable to start pipeline flows from Santa Ynez on Friday, using powers granted to him by Trump under an executive order invoking the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to supersede state laws.
Wright's order, issued as fuel prices surge across the globe due to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, aims "to address supply disruption risks caused by California policies that have left the region and U.S. military
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