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A corroded 24-inch Plains All American Pipeline line carrying crude from ExxonMobil's Las Flores Canyon plant ruptured beside Highway 101 near Refugio State Beach, sending oil down a culvert into the Pacific. The spill shut the pipeline and, with it, the three Santa Ynez Unit platforms for more than a decade.

Meeting in Santa Barbara, the California Coastal Commission voted 8-3 for an $18,022,500 penalty and unanimously issued a cease-and-desist order and a restoration order over Sable's unpermitted repair work on the Las Flores pipelines along the Gaviota Coast. Sable says the work is authorized by permits issued in the 1980s.

Sable began flowing oil from six wells on Platform Harmony to its Las Flores Canyon plant at about 6,000 barrels a day, the first Santa Ynez Unit production since the 2015 Refugio spill. With the onshore pipeline still barred, the oil went into storage tanks.

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Donna Geck granted environmental groups a partial preliminary injunction: Sable may not restart the onshore Las Flores pipelines until 10 court days after it certifies that every required approval is in hand. The suits say the State Fire Marshal waived corrosion rules without environmental review.

District Attorney John Savrnoch charged Sable with five felony Water Code counts for knowingly discharging fill into waterways and 16 Fish and Game Code misdemeanors over its pipeline repair digs at creeks such as Arroyo Quemada and Nojoqui Creek. Sable called the charges politically motivated and misleading.

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle finalized his tentative ruling against Sable Offshore, holding that the company's repair work at 121 sites along its 135-mile Gaviota Coast pipeline required California Coastal Commission development permits and violated the Coastal Act. The ruling leaves intact the injunction halting further repairs and keeps the Commission's $18 million fine a live issue.

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.

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A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.

State Parks sued Sable and its Pacific Pipeline Co. for continuing trespass, saying the 30-year easement for the four miles of Line CA-325 under Gaviota State Park expired in 2016, and asked a court to stop the oil and order the pipe removed. A federal judge later refused to halt the flow.

Two weeks after restarting the pipeline under the federal Defense Production Act order, Sable made its first oil sales in a decade, filling the line from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station at more than 50,000 barrels a day and selling to Chevron. Platform Harmony was producing about 22,000 barrels a day, with Heritage set to follow.

Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

The federal pipeline regulator waived its 180-day deadline for repairing longitudinal seam weld corrosion on Lines CA-324 and CA-325 until June 2036, in exchange for in-line inspections every six to nine months and stricter repair criteria. It replaces the emergency permit that expired in February.

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Six months after restarting, Sable Offshore began excavating 12 anomalies flagged by in-line inspection on the onshore pipeline that ruptured in 2015, seven of them in the coastal zone; any spot with wall loss of 40% or more must be repaired.

Santa Barbara County's Board of Supervisors voted to send the Senate a letter opposing the House's Hunt Amendment, which would let the Defense Secretary take easements, including by condemnation, along Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline System.

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Sable Offshore expects the Hondo platform offshore California to come back online by the end of September 2026, the third Santa Ynez Unit platform restarted after Heritage and Harmony. On its August earnings call management said the 45-year-old platform needed about 50% more work than expected and that it was "hoping" to hit the September timing. Hondo is expected to produce lower-sulfur crude that should bring field-wide sulfur content back to normal levels.

Deckers’ fiscal Q2 2027 sales rose 3.5% and diluted EPS reached US$2.31, including a US$0.28 tariff-refund benefit. HOKA and UGG grew while DTC comparable sales fell 6.4%; full-year EPS guidance includes additional refund benefits.

Eleven days of premieres, tributes and filmmaker conversations in downtown Santa Barbara, timed to the awards run-up.

Santa Barbara's multi-day heritage celebration with the Historical Parade, dance and music, and the Mercado del Norte.