Sable Offshore receives emergency special permit for Santa Ynez pipeline system segments
The US Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration issued an emergency special permit in late December 2025 for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System, approving Sable Offshore Corp.'s implementation of enhanced integrity management practices and specifying operational conditions.
Sable Offshore requested the emergency special permit to remediate corrosion at longitudinal seam welds along the 124-mile segments of pipeline.
The emergency special permit pertains to the specified pipeline segments, which make up the Las Flores Pipeline called Line CA-324 and Line CA-325. Line CA-325 can be further divided into two segments: CA-325A and CA-325B. The Las Flores Pipeline is part of the Santa Ynez Pipeline System, an interstate pipeline facility that Sable operates from the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Santa Barbara to Kern County, California.
Sable Offshore, a company created in 2020, restarted production at the Santa Ynez Unit and began flowing oil production to Las Flores Canyon in May 2025.
During the same time frame, the company completed its anomaly repair program on the onshore Las Flores Pipeline System as specified by the Consent Decree, the governing document for the restart and operations of the Onshore Pipeline.
Later that month, Sable announced it completed hydrotests of all segments of the onshore pipeline, satisfying the final operational condition for the restart of the onshore pipeline.
Sable reported that it flowed about 130,000 bbl of oil from the offshore Platform Harmony into storage at Las Flores Canyon during second-quarter 2025. Subsequently, Sable flowed an additional ~220,000 bbl of oil into storage at Las Flores Canyon as of Aug. 8, 2025. Santa Ynez Unit wells on Platform Harmony continue to produce in line with previously disclosed production rates, the company said.
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