Exxon Gets OK to Truck Crude Oil on California Highway -- Update
02 Février 2016 - 6:05PM
Dow Jones News
By Dan Molinski
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) has been given permission to truck
hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil on a scenic
California highway after the oil was left stranded in storage tanks
following a pipeline rupture last year.
"The approval is limited to trucking the total of approximately
425,000 barrels of oil currently in two storage tanks at the Exxon
Mobil facility at Las Flores Canyon," Santa Barbara County said in
a press release late Monday.
It said was only allowing Exxon to use crude tanker trucks on
Highway 101, a move environmentalists had long opposed, "to
mitigate the risks associated with long term storage of oil since
the pipeline is expected to be inoperable for a prolonged period of
time, in excess of at least six months."
Exxon, in an emailed statement Tuesday, expressed appreciation
to Santa Barbara county, and said it "will continue to work closely
with local officials as we prepare to safely remove inventory from
our storage tanks."
In May 2015, a Plains All American Pipeline used by Exxon to
haul some 30,000 barrels a day of crude suddenly burst due to
corrosion, spilling a large amount of crude oil into the ocean and
on beaches, killing wildlife.
That left Exxon with no way to get its crude oil to refineries
and facing the prospect of halting production at its offshore
California fields.
At that time, it asked the county for permission to use trucks
to move its crude oil while the pipeline was being fixed. It said
up to eight loaded oil-tanker trucks would use the 101 highway each
hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The county rejected that
plan in June amid cheers from environmentalists, saying it didn't
fit the county's "comprehensive plan."
Santa Barbara said in the press release that Exxon will begin
moving the crude in about three weeks, and it will take up to six
months to empty the tanks, at no more than 30 truck trips a day.
Exxon won't be allowed to refill the tanks.
Write to Dan Molinski at dan.molinski@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 02, 2016 11:50 ET (16:50 GMT)
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