Present Day
Platform A remains in the Santa Barbara Channel along with its three siblings, Platforms B, C, and Hillhouse, still pumping oil from the largely depleted field. As of 2010, the Minerals Management Service estimated only 11,400,000 barrels (1,810,000 m3) of recoverable oil remain in the Dos Cuadras Field, given present technology; another 260 million have been pumped out since the 1960s.
The current operator of the drilling platform, along with the other three platforms on the Dos Cuadras field, is the private firm DCOR LLC, of Ventura, California. They acquired Platform A from Plains Exploration & Production in 2005. DCOR is the fourth company to run the platform since Unocal sold its Santa Barbara Channel operations in 1996.
Read more about this topic: 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill
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