Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated March 29, 2013 relating to the financial statements, which appears in Pacific Coast Oil Trust’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Los Angeles, California

September 3, 2013