Oil Drillers Resort To Trucks As Key California Pipeline Idled

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Oil producers in central California have been forced to truck crude oil 50 miles to alternative facilities after a key pipeline was taken offline, significantly increasing operational costs and logistical complexity. The pipeline shutdown has disrupted normal crude transportation infrastructure in the region, forcing drillers to rely on expensive road transport. The situation highlights the vulnerability of regional oil supply chains to infrastructure failures.

By Nathan Risser Mar 13, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Oil drillers in central California have resorted to the costly and cumbersome alternative of trucking crude barrels 50 miles after the shut down of...