- Santa Barbara County rejects request to transport oil by road
- Broken pipeline in May leaked 101,000 gallons of crude
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Exxon Mobil Corp has been forced to halt operations at three offshore oil platforms because it could not deliver to refineries in the wake of a broken pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast, the company said.