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Sable Offshore…United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United States
Starts 08/19/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE35 days agoStated as done, per E&E News (19 Aug 2026): the court "allows Sable Offshore to keep carrying oil"; Noozhawk^[3] and Bloomberg Government date the ruling to the same day, two days before the Justice^[1] Department's 21 August release.
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Sable Offshore…US Court of Appeals 9 Circuit, 95, 7th Street, South of Market, Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
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Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United StatesSable Offshore…
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Judge Geck Upholds Injunction Against Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
Sable Offshore…Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100, Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, 93121, United States
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Stated as a completed action, per sableoffshore.com^[1]: "on December 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration ... issued an emergency special permit".

Start: Dec 23, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source · possible Dec 22 – 23, 2025
End: Dec 22, 202570% CONFIDENCEfrom keyt.com

PHMSA Issues Emergency Special Permit for Santa Ynez Pipeline Segments

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an emergency special permit for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System, approving Sable Offshore's enhanced integrity management practices and setting operational conditions. It is a step toward restarting the onshore transportation that has kept Sable's restarted Santa Ynez Unit oil in storage rather than on sale.

Sable Offshore Corp. (NYSE: SOC) announced on 24 December 2025 that PHMSA, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, issued an emergency special permit on 23 December 2025 for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System^[1]
The permit approves Sable's implementation of enhanced integrity management practices and specifies operational conditions; the Letter of Decision and related documents sit in Docket No. PHMSA-2025-1502 on regulations.gov^[1]
PHMSA's decision lets Sable operate Lines CA-324 and CA-325 without the requirement to evaluate and remediate corrosion along a longitudinal seam weld within 180 days, and requires reporting of any damage or spills no later than 24 hours from discovery^[2]
PHMSA cited Sable's argument that expedited review was warranted given the national energy emergency declared under Executive Order 14156^[2]
Line CA-324, formerly Line 901, has been dormant since the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill, which affected 150 miles of California coastline; the lines would carry crude from Las Flores Canyon east to Kern County^[2]
Per Sable's 8-K, PHMSA had informed the company on 22 December 2025 that it approved the restart plans for Lines CA-324 and CA-325; the agency had earlier in December removed the California Office of the State Fire Marshal from oversight of the restart^[3]
Environmental groups, led by the Environmental Defense Center, filed an emergency petition and stay motion in the Ninth Circuit on 24 December 2025, alleging PHMSA bypassed public notice and participation required under the Pipeline Safety Act^[2]
The Santa Ynez Unit restarted production in May 2025, with oil stored onshore at Las Flores Canyon pending resumed transportation; Sable has not sold commercial quantities of hydrocarbons since acquiring the unit, which was shut in during June 2015^[1]

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sableoffshore.com/news/news-details/2025/Sable-Offshore-Corp--Announces-Receipt-of-Emergency-Special-Permit-from-PHMSA-for-Santa-Ynez-Pipeline-System-Segments/default.aspx
sableoffshore.com· Posted Sep 23, 2026· Starts Dec 23, 2025 ✓· 59% of score
Stated as a completed action, per sableoffshore.com: "on December 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration ... issued an emergency special permit".
[2]74%
Environmental groups file emergency lawsuit to halt federally-approved oil restart plans | News Channel 3-12
keyt.com· Published Dec 25, 2025· 21% of score
KEYT^[3] (NewsChannel 3-12, the established Santa Barbara ABC/NBC affiliate) reports environmental groups' 24 December petition to the Ninth Circuit seeking to halt "the emergency special permit" PHMSA issued that week for Lines CA-324 and CA-325 and quotes PHMSA's decision language, but it dates the permit only as "this week" rather than 23 December, so it corroborates the event within a window.
[3]70%
Federal regulator approves Sable Offshore's plans to restart oil production in Santa Barbara County | News Channel 3-12
keyt.com· Published Dec 24, 2025· Starts Dec 22, 2025· Ends Dec 22, 2025 ✓· 21% of score
KEYT^[2] reports that, per Sable's 8-K, PHMSA told the company it had approved its restart plans for Line CA-324 and Line CA-325 on Dec. 22 — the same federal approval sequence, but the page gives a date one day before the 23 December special permit and describes the restart-plan approval rather than the permit itself, which caps the confidence.

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Law09/23/2026@LawDesk
Federal Judge Rules the DPA Order Overrides California on the Santa Ynez Pipeline
Sable Offshore…United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United States
Starts 08/19/2026CONFIRMED 83% CONFIDENCE35 days agoStated as done, per E&E News (19 Aug 2026): the court "allows Sable Offshore to keep carrying oil"; Noozhawk^[3] and Bloomberg Government date the ruling to the same day, two days before the Justice^[1] Department's 21 August release.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
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Ninth Circuit Rejects Bid to Block Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
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Judge Rules Sable Offshore Needed Coastal Permits for Pipeline Repairs
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Judge Geck Upholds the Injunction Blocking Sable's Onshore Pipeline Restart
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Starts 02/27/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE208 days agoStated as a completed action, per biologicaldiversity.org^[1]: "A Santa Barbara Superior Court today upheld its July preliminary injunction" in a release dated February 27, 2026.
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Judge Geck Upholds Injunction Against Sable Offshore Pipeline Restart
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Starts 04/17/2026CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE159 days agoStated as a completed event, per independent.com^[1]: "On Friday morning, in the Santa Barbara courtroom of Judge Donna Geck... Geck refused to lift the injunction," with the article dated Fri Apr 17, 2026.
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