Latest News
Town Halls
- Goleta Town Hall Meeting 11/07/2019
Presentation | Webcast - Goleta Town Hall Meeting 06/27/2019
Presentation | Webcast - Goleta Town Hall Meeting 11/15/2018
Presentation | Video of meeting - Goleta Town Hall Meeting 05/14/2018
Presentation - Goleta Town Hall Meeting 06/15/2017
Presentation | Photo Gallery
Previous Staff Reports
- Staff Report – 02/27/2018 (92)
- Staff Report – 07/11/1997 (76)
Additional Information
- Memorandum of Understanding – CSLC / City of Goleta
- Phase 1 Agreement – CSLC / Exxon
- Beacon West Energy Group, LLC contract
- ExxonMobil letter of intent
- Reimbursement Agreement extension request
- Request for payment to Aspen Insurance
- Default letter to Venoco
- Reimbursement Agreement
- Resolution
- Assignment Agreement – Mobil Oil Corp. agrees to retain responsibility for the Leases
- Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources Orders
COVID-19 UPDATE:
Operations are temporarily suspended in response to our Pandemic Response Plan. Our contractor, Beacon West Energy, will be manning the platform and keeping it safe, ready, and maintained for the resumption of plug and abandonment operations when it is safe to re-mobilize.
As background, in April 2017, Venoco quitclaimed its interests in the South Ellwood Field leases, including Platform Holly and the Ellwood Beach pier leases near the City of Goleta. The quitclaim ends commercial oil and gas production in state waters in the Santa Barbara Channel and returns operational control of these assets to the Commission. California’s Coastal Sanctuary Act prohibits the Commission from issuing new offshore oil and gas leases.
The Commission selected Beacon West Energy Group, LLC as its contractor to operate and maintain Platform Holly and the Ellwood Onshore Facility. Beacon West, under the Commission’s oversight, began ensuring the security and safe daily operations and maintenance at Platform Holly and the Ellwood Onshore Facility in September 2017.
ExxonMobil, the successor in interest to prior operator Mobil Oil Corporation, agreed to fulfill its obligation to abandon the 30 wells, seven of which were Venoco re-drilled and are state obligations, and the two near-shore wells on what was Oil & Gas Lease 421.
Leases, Amendments & Quitclaims
PRC 421
Lease – 10/22/1949
Amendment – 10/22/1959
Amendment – 04/01/1993
Amendment – 08/01/1997
Amendment – 08/26/2013
Quitclaim – 04/13/2017