Stay Connected  Plains unit breaks impasse on new development
drilling off California  A Texas independent has won the right
to undertake the first new oil field development project off
California since 1997.Technically, the project is the expansion
of an existing major development project in federal waters. But
it targets an untapped reservoir that once had been part of
another, nearby unit never approved for development. That
enabled it to escape the kind of onerous review and fierce
opposition that a "new" project proposal would have
invited.Arguello Inc., a unit of Houston-based Plains
Exploration & Production Co., late last month easily won
permission to drill eight extended-reach (ERD) wells into
federal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel from existing
platforms in t...  Why Register?   Why Subscribe?     Subscriber
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