California Demands Sable Remove Contested Oil Pipeline Segment

California’s Natural Resources Agency has ordered Houston-based oil driller Sable Offshore Corp. to remove a pipeline crossing a state park days after the US government instructed the company to begin pumping crude through the conduit.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, directed Sable on Friday to begin restoring operations for the Santa Ynez Unit and Santa Ynez Pipeline System in California. The company has been in a yearslong effort to start pumping hundreds of millions of barrels of oil from platforms off the Santa Barbara coast but has been stymied by local opposition.