Pipeline Work Delayed for 5 Years
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A company that has proposed building an oil pipeline through Ventura County to Los Angeles refineries modified has its plan, delaying construction on the 53-mile Ventura County portion until 1998.
Pacific Pipeline Systems Inc. originally proposed a pipeline that would have carried up to 130,000 barrels of oil a day from oil platforms off the Santa Barbara coast. The pipeline was to travel south to Ventura, east along the Santa Clara River through Ventura County and south along the Golden State Freeway.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 6, 1993 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday October 6, 1993 Ventura West Edition Metro Part B Page 4 Column 1 Metro Desk 2 inches; 41 words Type of Material: Correction
Wrong route--A story Tuesday incorrectly described revisions to the proposed route of the Pacific Pipeline. One segment would begin at Ellwood west of Goleta. Another segment would connect with the existing All American Pipeline at Emidio in Kern County and run 52 miles south to Santa Clarita.
But the plan became unfeasible when oil companies involved in the Point Arguello project off Santa Barbara signed a contract with competing oil pipeline operator, All America Pipelines.
All America now has existing lines that would carry the oil east from Gaviota to Kern County.
Pacific Pipeline, a sister company of Southern Pacific Transportation Co.’s railroad operation, now proposes building a pipeline to connect with the existing All America lines near Wilmington in Kern County.
The newly proposed line would carry oil 52 miles south from Wilmington to Santa Clarita. From there, the pipeline continues along the originally proposed route to refineries in Los Angeles County.
Pacific Pipeline plans to scrap the section of the pipeline that had been proposed from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria.
But it has left the pipeline through Ventura County in the proposal to accommodate oil that could be produced by a proposed Mobil Oil project near Carpinteria.
The portion through Ventura County would be built in a second phase, delaying the proposed 1996 construction date for two years, said Tom Rooney, project engineer for Pacific Pipeline.
“The Mobil project is just getting off the ground,” he said. “It’s a proposal to take out an offshore platform and drill horizontally from the shore.”
Martha Sullivan, environmental report manager with the Public Utilities Commission, said it is too early to tell whether Pacific Pipeline will have to complete a new environmental impact report on the revised project.
She said Pacific Pipeline plans to file its application for the revised plan by the end of the month.
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