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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Exxon Temporarily Shuts Down Off-Shore Production Off Santa Barbara -- June 24, 2015

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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