Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE)

This Montecito Journal article explains the ecological importance of California offshore platforms and summarizes the challenging regulatory issues associated with their decommissioning.

According to a paper published in 2014 by marine ecologist Dr. Jeremy Claisse of Cal Poly Pomona, the oil and gas platforms off the coast of California are the most productive marine habitats per unit area in the world. “Even the least productive platform was more productive than Chesapeake Bay or a coral reef in Moorea,” said Dr. Love. (Milt Love, UCSB biologist)