ExxonMobil lost its latest bid to transport millions of crude from shuttered offshore oil platforms off the central California coast to state refineries.
Judge Dolly Gee in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles Sept. 28 denied a request for summary judgment by the energy giant. Her decision upheld Santa Barbara County’s May 2022 decision to deny the company a permit to restart offshore oil production platforms and transport oil by tanker truck through central California.
