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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
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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]