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Court denies stay; SYU production restarted! PHMSA permit review in ~30 days

Posted in California, Offshore Energy - General, tagged , , , , , on December 31, 2025| Leave a Comment »

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SYU/Sable update: Down to the wire!

Posted in California, energy policy, Regulation, tagged , , , , , on December 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

All eyes are on the 9th Circuit. No injunction yet. Will the Court intervene to block Sable?

No evidence of intervention by the State.

Does Sable restart production tomorrow?

Traders on edge. Bulls are feeling optimistic. See X post below. 😉

Spend my barrel, parked in a harbor
‘Neath the platform spotlight
Pump it up tight, let the oil start flowin’
A little crude movin’ on a federal green light
Fits my life, oh so right
My Sable Offshore Delight— Victory II (@VictoryII1) December 30, 2025

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9th Circuit to BOEM: comprehensive EA for very limited, low risk well stimulation is not enough!

Posted in California, drilling, Offshore Energy - General, tagged , , , on June 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »

A full EIS is needed!

Further to the summary from the 2016 EA announcement, it appears that the only Pacific Region well operations over the past 2 years have been for plugging and abandonment purposes. The legal circus continues with or without actual operations.

There have been 24 well stimulation treatments (21 of which involved hydraulic fracturing) on the OCS offshore California between 1982 and 2014, and these were conducted on four of the 23 platforms. Reservoirs on the OCS off Southern California tend to be much more permeable than onshore reservoirs, and are already highly naturally fractured. Therefore, little permeability enhancement has been required for their development. As described in the scenario evaluated in the EA, the future use of Well Stimulation Treatments is expected to continue to be occasional rather than essential to hydrocarbon production from these platforms.

BOEM, 2016
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