Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE)

I asked two AI wizards if they could tell me the total number of lawsuits filed against Sable Offshore or the Federal govt regarding the restart and transport of production from the Santa Ynez Unit.

Kudos to EPA for their Notice (attached) informing that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) doesn’t meet the Clean Air Act’s definition of “best system of emissions reduction” (BSER).

Dale Kunitomi, a distinguished Petroleum Geologist, was a good friend of Joan Barminski, geologist and retired Pacific Region Director for BOEM.

Section 6 of EO 14430, RESTORING AMERICAN SALTWATER ANGLING AND RECREATION, establishes a program to facilitate the reefing of decommissioned platforms (i.e.

F/V Mistress jackup boat servicing Block Island wind turbine sidescan sonar image of wreckage within 50 feet of the base of wind turbine (the square) vessel’s net drum Two fisherment died when the F/V Mistress capsized and sank near the Block Island Wind…

Post on X by Robert Sterling : We used to get hurricanes all the time.

Inline inspections identified anomalies at multiple points in Segment 324 of Sable’s onshore pipeline.

2025 Gulf of America gas production as compared to: total US production – 1.5% TX – 5.3% PA – 9.4% NM – 17.3% LA – 18.8% WV – 20% AK – 20.3% Gas production in OK, OH, CO, ND, and WY also exceeded Gulf production.

Until the late Triassic period, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia were co-joined with Mauritania and Senegal as part of the Pangea super-continent.

District Boundaries Oil Wells As expected, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to ban new onshore oil and gas drilling.

United’s massive Walton-Morant license is the size of 896 Gulf of America lease blocks!

The Buckskin field (LLOG) is located in Keathley Canyon blocks 785, 828, 829, 830, 871, and 872 in 6,800 ft (2,073 m) of water.

Our guy in Scotland, JL Daeschler, reminds Sunday Times readers that the UK can’t simply summon the return of the long neglected North Sea oil industry.

Twenty Members of Congress (17 from California) filed the attached amicus brief in support of California’s challenge to the use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to facilitate the restart of production at the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU) in the Santa Barbara C…

Two particularly troubling examples of decisions that threatened long-term US offshore production and national security, and endorsed higher oil prices: Sale 257 court ruling: In 2022, a Federal judge ruled in favor of higher oil prices.

White Fleet Drilling’s WFD 450 jack-up drilling rig Arena Energy CEO Mike Minarovic: “We are ‘all in’ on the future of the shallow water Gulf of America.

Matt Giacona Mike Olsen Politico is reporting that Michael Olsen has been selected to head the Marine Minerals Administration (MMA), following Matt Giacona’s departure for a position in Halliburton.

Attached is the final version of AB 1448, which is among the stack of bills awaiting Gov.

Ken Arnold, NAE, contributed greatly to the responsible development of offshore oil and gas resources.

On Labor Day 2026, BOE is proud to salute the thousands of dedicated offshore professionals, in the US and around the world, who work in remote locations under challenging conditions to support their families and power economic growth.

This article asserts that we do not need a Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Raising the bar!

Bluecore Energy, with the support of the Port of Long Beach, is proposing nuclear reactors on barges.

Chris Goldblatt, CEO of the Fish Reef Project shared this impressive new video on the habitat beneath Platforms Ellen and Elly in the Beta Unit offshore Huntington Beach, CA.