I think I forgot to post this story yesterday.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting:
ExxonMobil has shut down oil production at its three platforms off the
Santa Barbara County coast a month after a corroded pipeline owned by
Texas company Plains All American Pipeline burst, effectively cutting
off the flow of Exxon’s crude.
The
oil giant halted operations at the Heritage, Harmony and Hondo offshore
platforms late last week after it exhausted storage space at an
onshore facility near El Capitan State Beach, company spokesman Richard
Keil said Tuesday.
The company had hoped to avoid a shutdown by using a fleet of
6,720-gallon trucks to make as many as 192 daily trips on U.S. 101 to
ship the oil to nearby refineries. (See "we got us a convoy.")
A Santa Barbara County official rejected that "emergency" proposal for an expedited trucking permit this month.
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