{"id":220935,"date":"2026-03-15T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220935\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:20:23","slug":"federal-government-orders-southern-california-oil-and-gas-pipeline-to-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220935\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government orders Southern California oil and gas pipeline to restart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bakersfield-oil-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bakersfield-oil.jpg\" alt=\"Oil pumps dot a dusty landscape, silhouetted against a hazy sky. A person in a blue hard hat walks in the foreground.\" class=\"wp-image-360783\"  \/><\/a>A worker walks near pump jacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield on Jan. 16, 2015. (File photo by Jae C. Hong\/Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p> U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed a Texas-based oil and gas company Friday to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill, invoking the Defense Production Act.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring Sable Offshore Corp.\u2019s Santa Ynez unit and pipeline off Santa Barbara aims to address supply disruption risks, according to a department news release. The unit includes three rigs in federal waters, offshore and onshore pipelines, and the Las Flores Canyon Processing Facility. The facility can produce about 50,000 barrels of oil per day and would replace nearly 1.5 million barrels of foreign crude each month, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reverse former President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-offshore-drilling-trump-florida-atlantic-pacific-aa26f50e158fd4f9c24d368898244dce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ban on future offshore oil drilling<\/a>\u00a0on the East and West coasts. A federal court later struck down Biden\u2019s order to withdraw 625 million acres of federal waters from oil development.<\/p>\n<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an attempt to illegally restart a pipeline whose operators are facing criminal charges and prohibited by multiple court orders from restarting,\u201d Newsom said in a statement. \u201cCalifornia will not stand by while the Trump administration attempts to sacrifice our coastal communities, our environment, and our $51 billion coastal economy. The Trump administration and Sable are defying multiple court orders, and we will see them back in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-oil-pipelines-coast-sable-trump-lawsuit-cbf79cac5dcdd7d2a720281246e52b09\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California sued<\/a>\u00a0the federal government for approving Houston-based Sable\u2019s plans to restart pipelines along the coast. Democratic state Attorney General Rob Bonta said at the time that the state oversees the pipelines through Santa Barbara and Kern counties and the federal government \u201chas no right to usurp California\u2019s regulatory authority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker walks near pump jacks operating at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield on Jan. 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8390,73170,101047,74,76,75,74215,564,1695],"class_list":["post-220935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-oil","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-sable-offshore-corportation","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-santa-ynez","tag-texas","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}