BP will pay US $20.5M to settle royalty case
The Justice Department says British oil giant BP will pay the U.S. $20.5 million to resolve claims made in a whistleblower lawsuit that its subsidiaries underpaid royalties owed on natural gas produced...
View ArticleHouston gas drilling contractor fined for running afoul of Clean Water Act
Integrated Production Services, a Houston-based oil and gas drilling contractor, today agreed to pay $140,000 in fines for sending hydrochloric acid into an eastern Oklahoma creek in 2007.
View ArticleDOJ: No charges for Houston company in FCPA investigation
The company said in a 2013 release that the investigation would look into "whether Hyperdynamics' activities in obtaining and retaining the concession rights and its relationships with charitable...
View ArticleJustice Department probes Plains pipeline spill
Plains disclosed the ongoing probes and the possibility of civil and criminal charges tied to the incident in an earnings filing this week.
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