October 12, 2024
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Oil glut ends tri-county drilling expansion

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Sustained low oil prices have brought costly new oil extraction proposals in Santa Barbara County to a halt. Aera Energy abandoned its plan to develop hundreds of new wells at the East Cat Canyon field, the second development project to be pulled as crude prices have stayed near $30 a barrel. “There’s just so much…

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