Houston Oil Company Seeks To Drill For Crude Undersea In California
AHN - 5 hours ago
Houston, TX (AHN) - A Houston-based oil company wants to try drilling for oil beneath the ocean floor in California, even offering to close its offshore oil ...

Environmentalist Groups Reach Unprecedented Deal to Limit PXP's ...
Enews 2.0, UK - 7 hours ago
By Julia Bonelli Three Californian environmental groups announced on Thursday that they have reached a historic deal with Plains Exploration & Production ...

Oil firm, foes strike major deal
Los Angeles Times, CA - 11 hours ago
EYESORE: A gas processing plant owned by PXP, shown at center above US Highway 101 on the scenic Gaviota coast, would be shut down by 2017 and given to a ...

Environmental Groups Announce Landmark Agreement to Limit Oil ...
FOXBusiness - 12 hours ago
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 10, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- The Environmental Defense Center (EDC), Get Oil Out! (GOO! ...

Agreement could phase out PXP production
Lompoc Record, CA - 12 hours ago
By Bo Poertner/Managing Editor An agreement announced Thursday between local environmental groups and Plains Exploration and Production Co. would phase out ...

Plains makes deal to tap undersea oil
Houston Chronicle, United States - 13 hours ago
A Houston-based oil company agreed to shut down its oil production off California's Santa Barbara County decades early in exchange for approval this year to ...

Oil company, environmental groups meet to discuss future of ...
KSBY, CA - 15 hours ago
Rarely do you find oil companies and environmental groups on the same side, but that's what happened Thursday in Santa Barbara. ...

California environmental groups in deal with offshore oil company
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 17 hours ago
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Conservationists including environmental groups spawned by the infamous 1969 offshore oil platform blowout that coated miles of ...

Plains Exploration sets end date for Lompoc field production
Bizjournals.com, NC - 22 hours ago
Plains Exploration & Production Co. has signed an agreement with three California environmental groups to eventually halt oil production in a California ...

Platform Irene slant drilling sought off Santa Barbara
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Apr 10, 2008
AP SANTA MARIA, Calif.—A petroleum company wants permission for slant drilling off Platform Irene in the Santa Barbara Channel. ...

Offshore drilling plan seeking SB County OK
Lompoc Record, CA - Apr 9, 2008
By Sam Womack/Staff Writer The Santa Barbara County Planning Commission may soon be deciding whether to approve a 30-year offshore oil drilling project ...