Sable Offshore: The Return of an Oil Giant That Had Been Shut Down for Ten Years

Updated September 10, 2026

Sable Offshore Corp. (NYSE: SOC) is an oil company that is difficult to classify simply by looking at a balance sheet or a stock chart. It is not a young company searching for oil in an unexplored area, but neither is it a mature producer with years of relatively predictable results behind it.

Its main project consists of bringing back into full operation a large offshore oil system in California that was built and operated for decades by ExxonMobil and remained essentially cut off from the market after a pipeline incident in 2015.

The oil beneath the seafloor had not suddenly disappeared. What had disappeared was the ability to transport it normally to market.

That distinction explains almost the entire Sable story.

Who Sable Offshore Is

Sable Offshore is an independent oil exploration and production company headquartered in Houston. Its operations revolve almost entirely around the Santa Ynez Unit, in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the coast of Southern California.

The system includes 16 federal leases, approximately 76,000 offshore acres, three oil platforms — Hondo, Harmony, and Heritage — the Las Flores Canyon processing facilities, and the Santa Ynez Pipeline System, the network that transports crude from offshore facilities to the inland sales point at Pentland, California. Sable holds a 100% working interest in the field, with an average net revenue interest of 83.6%.

It is therefore a highly concentrated company.

Rather than owning dozens of fields spread across the United States, Sable has built its story around a single very large asset. This concentration simultaneously amplifies both operating potential and risk: when Santa Ynez performs well, nearly the entire company benefits from the improvement; when something obstructs Santa Ynez, nearly the entire company feels the impact.

Before Sable, There Was Exxon

The history of the Santa Ynez Unit begins long before the company that controls it today.

Starting in 1968, ExxonMobil consolidated more than a dozen offshore leases to create the Santa Ynez Unit. The platforms and related infrastructure remained operational for more than thirty years and continued producing until 2015.

In May of that year, the Refugio oil spill occurred.

Line 901, an onshore pipeline then operated by Plains All American Pipeline, ruptured near Santa Barbara. An investigation by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration later attributed the incident to ineffective corrosion protection.

The incident had one fundamental consequence for Santa Ynez: the only infrastructure through which the field’s oil could normally reach the market was no longer available.

Exxon therefore halted production.

This point is essential: the Santa Ynez Unit was not abandoned because the reservoir had become economically depleted. It was effectively turned into a stranded asset by the disruption of its transportation infrastructure and the regulatory maze that followed in order to reactivate it.

For nearly a decade, the facilities remained shut down but maintained. Wells, platforms, and infrastructure continued to undergo inspection, maintenance, and monitoring in anticipation of a possible return to operations.

Sable Arrives: Buying What Others Can No Longer Use

The company now known as Sable Offshore entered the public market through Flame Acquisition Corp., a SPAC.

In November 2022, Legacy Sable reached an agreement with ExxonMobil to acquire the Santa Ynez Unit and its related infrastructure. On February 14, 2024, the business combination with Flame was completed, Flame changed its name to Sable Offshore Corp., and immediately afterward the acquisition of Exxon’s assets was also completed. SOC began trading on the NYSE the following day.

The total accounting cost of the acquisition was close to $986 million. The structure included a $625 million term loan provided by Exxon itself, approximately $204 million in cash, accrued PIK interest, and other elements of the transaction.

The industrial model was relatively straightforward: rather than spending years and billions of dollars finding, permitting, and building a new offshore field from scratch, Sable was acquiring a field that had already been discovered, already been drilled, already had platforms, processing facilities, and pipelines — but was blocked.

Value would be created by removing that blockage.

This is the characteristic that distinguishes Sable from many other small oil companies. The primary initial risk was not exploratory — “is there really oil there?” — but operational, financial, and above all regulatory: “will we be able to bring it back to market?”

The Key Figure: James Flores

Sable is led by James C. “Jim” Flores, chairman and CEO, who has been active in the oil & gas sector since the 1980s.

Flores has already built and managed several publicly traded E&P companies. Among his most significant ventures was Plains Exploration & Production, which under his leadership also developed operations in California and was later acquired by Freeport-McMoRan in 2013 in a transaction worth approximately $16.3 billion, including assumed debt.

This matters because Sable is not management’s first encounter with complex oil assets or with California. The company’s strategy appears consistent with a specialization in acquiring and developing difficult assets that larger or more diversified operators may no longer consider a priority.

From Stranded Oil to Oil Sold

2024 was primarily the year of the acquisition and the restoration work.

In May 2025, the first major industrial milestone arrived: Platform Harmony resumed production. The oil, however, still could not be sold normally and was accumulated at the Las Flores Canyon facilities while the battle over pipeline reactivation continued.

The distinction between production and sales is fundamental.

A well can technically extract oil, but until that oil can reach a refinery or a buyer, the asset does not generate the normal economic cycle of a producer.

The turning point came in March 2026.

On March 13, the U.S. federal government invoked the Defense Production Act, and the Secretary of Energy ordered Sable to resume transportation services through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System. On March 14, oil began flowing again through the onshore sections of the pipeline, and on March 29, 2026, Sable completed its first sales, with Chevron identified as the first buyer.

After almost eleven years, the circuit was complete again:

well → platform → Las Flores Canyon → pipeline → market.

Platform Heritage also returned to production in April. Hondo is now the remaining platform, with its restart expected by the company in September 2026.

In just a few months, Sable therefore went from being a company financing the restart of a dormant asset to a company selling tens of thousands of barrels per day.

Where It Stands Today

The second quarter of 2026 was the first full quarter in which this transformation became visible in the numbers.

Sable entered the quarter with production still ramping up and exited it at approximately 40,000 net barrels per day of oil sales, an increase of 149% from the beginning to the end of the period.

The $64.2 million net loss may appear inconsistent with a positive operating story, but the quarter still contains numerous costs typical of the restart phase. Operating and maintenance expenses were $113.5 million and included $18.5 million in demurrage, $12 million in operator-rights expenditures, and other commissioning expenses that the company considers non-recurring. On top of that were $43.1 million in interest expense.

It is therefore still too early to use Q2 as a snapshot of the field’s normalized cost structure.

At the same time, the shift to positive operating cash flow during the quarter represents a concrete change from the previous phase, when Sable was consuming capital without yet having a normal stream of sales.

How Much Oil Is Actually There?

This is where the scale of the asset becomes interesting.

Netherland Sewell & Associates, an independent firm specializing in oil reserve evaluations, estimated that as of May 31, 2026, there were approximately 90.46 million barrels of proved developed oil reserves, in addition to approximately 1.19 million barrels of NGLs and 77.9 Bcf of gas.

The 10% present value of the proved developed reserves alone was approximately $1.47 billion. Added to this were approximately $608 million in present value attributed to probable developed reserves and approximately $850 million to possible developed reserves.

These figures, however, require caution.

PV-10 is not a valuation of the company, and NSAI explicitly states that the present value of future revenues should not be interpreted as fair market value. The study uses assumptions regarding prices, costs, production, and abandonment and does not incorporate all possible environmental or corporate liabilities.

Sable itself also presents a much broader case, arguing that Santa Ynez has approximately 671 MMBoe of estimated remaining reserves/resources under its most expansive technical scenario and more than one hundred potential future undrilled locations. These estimates, however, represent a very different level of certainty from SEC proved reserves and should not be confused with them.

This is precisely where one of the fundamental questions for assessing Sable’s future evolution lies: how much of the broader geological potential will progressively be converted into economically producible reserves and therefore into cash flow?

The Guidance Shows Why the Market Is Watching the Ramp-Up So Closely

For the second half of 2026, Sable expects average gross sales of between 47,500 and 52,500 boe/day, equivalent to approximately 40,000-45,000 net.

For 2027, the company indicates 50,000-55,000 boe/day gross and 42,500-47,500 net. Assuming an average Brent price of $75.35, company guidance points to revenue of between $781 million and $942 million, adjusted EBITDA of between $518 million and $698 million, and unlevered free cash flow of between $434 million and $584 million.

The midpoint of the last metric is approximately $509 million.

It is important to emphasize that these figures are management guidance, not results already achieved. They depend on completion of the ramp-up, well performance, the actual restart of Hondo, costs, refinery availability, and continued pipeline operations.

But they make it possible to understand the economic logic of the story.

As of September 9, 2026, SOC was worth approximately $4.92 per share, with a market capitalization of approximately $944 million and an enterprise value close to $1.9 billion.

If Sable were actually able to transform itself into a producer capable of generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual cash flow, the market would progressively have to stop valuing it primarily as a restart project. If, on the other hand, production, costs, or infrastructure failed to reach those levels, a significant portion of the current valuation would rest on results that have not yet materialized.

That is the point that needs to be tested.

The Debt Problem

The capital required to buy and restart Santa Ynez has not been cheap.

As of June, Sable still had nearly one billion dollars tied to Exxon financing. In July 2026, the company therefore completed a major refinancing transaction.

It issued a $675 million Term Loan B, $345 million in convertible notes, and approximately $115 million in new equity at $3.08 per share. The old Exxon financing was repaid, and the main maturity was pushed out to the end of 2028.

The positive financial development is that immediate liquidity risk declined. In the previous quarter, management had even indicated substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern; following the July refinancing, that assessment was withdrawn.

The price paid for that additional time, however, is high.

The Term Loan B carries an annual interest rate of 15%, requires quarterly amortization of 2.5% in the second half of 2026 and 5% beginning in 2027, along with a 100% excess cash flow sweep. In practice, a very significant portion of the cash generated over the coming quarters will be directed toward debt reduction.

Sable itself views this structure as a bridge solution and lists among its next objectives a new refinancing at a lower cost and long-term leverage near 1x.

For this reason, the cost of capital is almost as important as the price of oil.

If the company proves that it can consistently generate significant cash flow, credit risk declines and it becomes possible to refinance the 15% debt on better terms. Lower interest expense means more residual value for equity holders.

The Convertibles: Useful Capital Today, Potential Dilution Tomorrow

The $345 million of convertible senior notes mature in 2031 and carry a 6.5% coupon.

The initial conversion price is $4 per share. SOC is already trading above that level.

Simply dividing the face value of the notes by $4 produces a theoretical equivalent of more than 86 million shares. This does not mean that 86 million shares will automatically be issued: under the terms of the agreement, Sable can settle conversions through cash, shares, or a combination of the two.

It nevertheless remains an important element of the capital structure.

At the end of June, Sable had 154.5 million shares outstanding. Following the July equity offering, the figure reported by the company had risen to approximately 191.9 million.

There is also an ATM program: at the end of June, approximately $155 million of capacity remained available. As of August 10, the company stated that it had not used the ATM during Q3 up to that point.

To properly understand SOC, therefore, production and reserves are not enough. It is also necessary to observe how the value of the asset is distributed among debt, convertibles, and common shareholders.

California Remains the Major Non-Oil Risk

What makes Sable unusual is that its regulatory risk can be almost as important as its geological risk.

The California Coastal Commission argues that various works performed on the pipelines should have required additional Coastal Development Permits. Sable, on the other hand, maintains that it can operate under existing rights and permits.

In June 2026, the California Court of Appeal upheld a preliminary injunction in favor of the Coastal Commission relating to work on the Las Flores Pipelines. The court ruled that the Commission had the authority to intervene even after Santa Barbara County had determined that existing permits were sufficient.

At the same time, however, the federal landscape has moved in the opposite direction.

On August 19, a federal court declined to order the shutdown of the onshore sections of the Santa Ynez Pipeline System. It found that Sable was no longer in violation of the previous Consent Decree following PHMSA’s approval of the restart plan, imposing a $1.449 million penalty but allowing operations to continue.

As part of the same group of decisions, the court rejected California’s request to suspend the order issued under the Defense Production Act and ruled that the Department of Parks and Recreation could not use state legal actions to block activities necessary to comply with the federal order. California has appealed.

Another favorable decision arrived on August 31: a federal court dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity against Santa Ynez’s offshore operations, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to establish sufficient standing.

The conclusion, therefore, is not “Sable has defeated California.”

The correct picture is more complex: some state-level decisions remain unfavorable, while recent federal decisions have significantly strengthened the company’s ability to continue operating.

The litigation remains ongoing, and the main case involving the Coastal Commission is scheduled for trial in February 2027.

Why the Price of Oil Matters — but Less Than It May Seem

Sable is almost entirely exposed to oil. Once production has stabilized, the value of the barrels sold therefore naturally becomes a fundamental variable.

The relevant commercial benchmark is Brent, adjusted for crude quality, geographic location, transportation, and other differentials.

On September 10, 2026, Brent rose above $105 per barrel, driven by worsening disruptions in the Middle East and risks to maritime shipping routes.

In theory, a producer like Sable benefits significantly from high prices.

In practice, the effect is reduced by hedges.

For the second half of 2026, the company has costless collars covering approximately 28,000 barrels per day, with a floor of $65 and an average ceiling of $89.39. In 2027, approximately 25,000 barrels per day are hedged between $65 and $80, while in 2028 approximately 21,000 barrels per day are hedged between $65 and $73.17.

The hedges protect cash flow if oil prices fall, but they limit the benefit on hedged barrels when Brent rises significantly above the ceilings.

With Brent above $100, therefore, Sable does not automatically receive $100+ for every barrel it produces. Unhedged volumes retain greater upside, while hedged volumes are subject to the collar structure.

The price of oil remains important, but for SOC the question must always be how many barrels are produced, how many can be sold, how many are hedged, and what net price is actually realized.

The Less Spectacular but Very Real Problem: Finding a Buyer for All Those Barrels

The reopening of Santa Ynez created an unusual commercial situation.

California refineries had not been able to plan far in advance for the arrival of Sable’s crude because sales resumed quickly following federal intervention. Some refineries had to reschedule previously planned supplies, and Sable incurred $18.5 million in demurrage charges in Q2.

Crude from Harmony and Heritage also showed sulfur content that resulted in quality discounts and temporarily limited the volume that refineries could absorb.

In July 2026, downstream partners had imposed a temporary limit of approximately 40,000 gross barrels per day. Sable expected the constraint to be progressively removed and refineries to adjust their crude slates to accept more barrels from the Pacific OCS.

Hondo should also help on this front because its oil is expected to have lower sulfur content and should improve the average blend quality of the entire field. The company is also evaluating chemical treatments and potential waterborne solutions that would expand the number of accessible markets.

It is an aspect often overlooked when analyzing a producer: producing more oil creates value only if there is sufficient logistical and refining capacity to sell it without sacrificing too much on price.

Hondo Is the Next Operational Test

Harmony is online. Heritage is online.

Platform Hondo remains.

Sable expects the restart in September 2026. At the same time, it is carrying out a program of perforation additions and well optimization.

Five Perf Adds on Hondo are estimated by management to contribute approximately 600 additional gross barrels per day each, with another four interventions planned for the beginning of the fourth quarter.

The first perforation additions carried out on other wells produced initial results above previous internal expectations, an outcome that increased interest in the field’s optimization potential.

Hondo matters not only because it adds production.

It completes the system’s three platforms, should improve the average quality of the crude, and provides a test of whether Santa Ynez can truly stabilize around the production levels projected by management.

For this reason, the important data point will not simply be “Hondo has restarted,” but how much the overall system is producing several weeks after the restart and how much of that production can actually be sold.

Competitors: Sable Is Difficult to Compare

There is no perfectly comparable competitor.

The most obvious operating peer is Amplify Energy, which produces oil through the Beta Field in federal waters offshore Southern California. Beta also has offshore platforms and a pipeline to shore, but it is significantly smaller: in Q2 2026, it was producing approximately 4,100 barrels per day from the Beta Field.

Amplify is therefore useful primarily for comparing the economics and operational challenges of California offshore production.

Another reference point is California Resources Corporation, which is much larger and more diversified and, through its operations and subsidiaries, is one of California’s leading oil producers. It is a useful comparison for understanding the state’s regulatory and commercial environment, but less appropriate for directly measuring Sable’s company-specific risk.

The central difference is concentration.

A diversified producer can absorb problems at a single asset through the rest of its portfolio. Sable is essentially Santa Ynez with a corporate structure built around it.

That makes the stock much more event-driven than conventional E&P peers.

A Potential New Chapter: Venezuela

At the beginning of September, an entirely new development emerged.

The Financial Times reported that Sable was in advanced talks with the Venezuelan government regarding potential opportunities in the country’s oil sector, as several U.S. and international companies evaluate new investments in Venezuela’s energy industry.

For the time being, this development should be treated with caution.

As of September 10, no definitive corporate agreement had been disclosed by Sable through an SEC filing that would allow investors to quantify the assets involved, required capital, potential production, or economic returns.

If it were to materialize, however, it would represent a significant strategic evolution.

Sable would move from being essentially a single-asset California turnaround to a company interested in acquiring or developing other stranded/distressed oil assets.

It would also be entirely consistent with the model Santa Ynez is attempting to demonstrate: take a very large oil asset facing problems that are not strictly geological, accept the complexity that other operators prefer to avoid, and attempt to reactivate its value.

For now, however, Venezuela remains optionality rather than part of the company’s established fundamentals.

Why Sable Deserves Attention

The Sable case is interesting because many of the uncertainties that existed two years ago have already been removed.

In 2024, it was not certain that Santa Ynez would return to production. In 2025, oil was flowing from the wells again but could not yet be sold normally. In March 2026, sales resumed. In Q2, revenue reached $137 million and operating cash flow turned positive. In July 2026, the debt that had raised doubts about the company’s ability to continue operating was refinanced.

The question has therefore changed.

It is no longer:

“Will Sable be able to restart Santa Ynez?”

An important part of that answer has already arrived.

The question now is:

“How much economic value can Santa Ynez generate once it is fully restarted, and how much of that value will remain available to equity holders after costs, debt, hedges, dilution, and regulatory risk?”

That is a much more quantifiable question.

What to Watch Over the Coming Quarters

The central metric will be actual production sold, not simply the field’s theoretical capacity. A system consistently above 40,000-45,000 net barrels per day would have very different economics from one that continues to encounter downstream constraints.

Next comes the cost per barrel. The 2027 guidance assumes a significant normalization of lease operating expenses compared with the restart phase; the next step is to verify whether demurrage, commissioning expenses, and other extraordinary costs actually disappear.

The third factor is Hondo. Its restart should increase production while simultaneously improving the crude’s sulfur mix.

The fourth is debt. A 15% Term Loan B is far easier to support with $500-600 million of EBITDA than with production below expectations. A future refinancing at a significantly lower cost would represent a structural change in the economics.

Then comes the capital structure. Conversion of the notes, potential use of the ATM, and new equity issuances determine how much of the economic growth actually belongs to each existing share.

Finally, the legal dimension remains. Recent federal rulings have improved the operating environment, but the conflict with California has not been resolved, and appeals can produce further changes in perceived risk.

Added to these factors will be the new 3P reserve report expected in Q1 2027 and any concrete developments regarding Venezuela.

The Risk That Does Not Go Away: Everything Depends on a Single System

Santa Ynez is both Sable’s strength and its weakness.

The concentration provides enormous operating leverage: restarting one platform, improving one well, or removing one bottleneck can significantly alter the production of the entire company.

But the opposite is also true.

A major technical problem, a temporary pipeline shutdown, an environmental incident, an adverse court ruling, or problems with downstream infrastructure can have a disproportionate impact.

There are also long-term obligations related to infrastructure decommissioning. As of June 30, the accounting asset retirement obligation was approximately $119.8 million, while the company has also indicated a $350 million bonding requirement for plugging and abandonment to be satisfied through sureties and/or letters of credit.

Mature offshore assets can generate substantial cash flow, but they also carry costs that outlive production.

An Oil Stock, but Above All a Special Situation

Looking at SOC simply as “a stock that rises when oil rises” means missing much of the story.

Sable is simultaneously:

• an E&P company;
• an industrial restart;
• a distressed-asset recovery situation;
• a regulatory case;
• a deleveraging story;
• and, potentially, a platform for further acquisitions of problematic oil assets.

It is this combination that makes it different from a conventional producer.

Brent determines the marginal value of the barrels. Production determines how many barrels exist economically. Pipelines determine whether they can reach the market. Refineries determine the differential at which they are purchased. Hedges determine how much price exposure remains. Debt determines how much cash is absorbed by creditors. Regulators and courts determine whether the entire system can continue operating without new obstacles.

All of these variables converge on the value of the equity.

The Central Point

Sable Offshore acquired an asset that for almost ten years essentially represented oil without a road to market.

That road now exists again.

Santa Ynez is producing. The pipeline is transporting. Chevron and other downstream operators can receive the crude. Sable is generating revenue and has begun producing positive operating cash flow.

The most speculative part of the original story has therefore diminished.

But it has been replaced by a new phase, perhaps an even more important one: proving that the system can operate steadily, economically efficiently, and financially sustainably.

If the ramp-up reaches expectations, extraordinary costs disappear, Hondo becomes fully operational, commercial constraints are removed, and debt is progressively reduced or refinanced, Sable gradually stops being a company valued on the promise of recovering an asset.

It becomes an oil producer.

If, on the other hand, one of these structural steps fails, the company’s concentration makes the impact far more significant than it would be for a large diversified operator.

It is this balance between an exceptionally large oil asset that has already been brought back to life and a structure that remains financially and regulatorily fragile that makes Sable Offshore one of the most unusual cases in today’s small-cap energy universe.

The oil is already flowing again.

Now the market has to determine what it is really worth.

SABLE OFFSHORE — AT-A-GLANCE SNAPSHOT

Data updated as of September 10, 2026

The latest operating figures show a company that in 2026 transitioned from a restart project into an actual producer: $137.1 million in Q2 revenue, positive operating cash flow, and approximately 40,000 net barrels per day in exit sales. Management is targeting 50–55 thousand gross boe/day in 2027, with $518–698 million in Adjusted EBITDA.

On the asset side, NSAI’s independent valuation attributes approximately 90.46 million barrels of oil to proved developed reserves alone, in addition to NGLs and gas, with a PV-10 of approximately $1.47 billion based on the assumptions used in the report.

The counterweight is the financial structure: a $675 million Term Loan at 15%, $345 million in convertible notes with an initial conversion price of $4, and approximately $115 million in new equity issued in July. The refinancing extended the company’s financial runway, but it also makes deleveraging and the cost of capital fundamental variables for the equity.

In one line: Sable is now a producer of approximately 40k bbl/day, with a large developed asset and approximately 90M barrels of proved developed reserves, but it remains burdened by expensive debt, regulatory risk, and an incomplete ramp-up. The decisive step is turning Santa Ynez from a recently restarted asset into a stable producer of 50–55k gross boe/day.

Why Is Brent Used If Sable Produces in California?

It is an intuitive question: Sable operates in the United States, so it would be natural to think of WTI as the relevant benchmark. In reality, in California, Brent is often more relevant.

The reason is that the benchmark does not depend only on the country where the field is located, but above all on the market in which that crude competes.

California is relatively isolated from the broader U.S. inland oil system centered around Cushing and the continental pipeline network. California refineries also purchase significant volumes of crude by sea from the international market. As a result, the marginal cost of crude in the state is more heavily influenced by Brent, the global benchmark for waterborne oil.

That is exactly the market in which barrels from the Santa Ynez Unit compete: when Sable resumed sales, its oil began replacing part of the imported cargoes used by California refineries. The company is also evaluating waterborne solutions to further expand the number of potential buyers.

The hedge structure also confirms this exposure: Sable uses contracts indexed to Brent, not WTI, to protect part of its production.

The price actually realized by Sable, however, does not simply equal Brent. It is more accurate to think of it as:

Realized price ≈ Brent ± quality differential – logistics costs – any commercial discounts

In the case of Santa Ynez, factors such as crude sulfur content, refinery availability, and transportation costs all matter.

In summary:

WTI → more representative of the U.S. inland oil system

Brent → more representative of the international and waterborne market, and therefore particularly relevant for California

For this reason, although it is a U.S. company, Sable Offshore’s economic exposure can be read more directly through Brent than through WTI.

Sources

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — Sable Offshore Corp. filings, annual and quarterly reports, investor presentations and reserve reports
• Sable Offshore Corp. — Official corporate website, investor relations materials and Q2 2026 financial and operational results
• Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) — Independent reserve evaluation of the Santa Ynez Unit
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) — Santa Ynez Unit environmental assessment and historical background
• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) — Pipeline safety and restart-related documentation
• U.S. Department of Energy — Defense Production Act actions related to the Santa Ynez Pipeline System
• California Coastal Commission — Regulatory proceedings concerning the Las Flores Pipelines
• California Court of Appeal — Sable Offshore Corp. v. California Coastal Commission
• Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara — Sable Offshore / California Coastal Commission litigation
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