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Violation Tracker Industry Summary Page

Industry: 
oil and gas
Penalty Total since 2000: 
$45,478,756,335
Number of Records: 
5,953
Note: 
The totals include only those entries matched to a parent company. The industry designation is the primary one for the parent's operations overall. The totals are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.

Top 10 Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
BP$29,155,941,533236
Occidental Petroleum$5,411,970,886170
Exxon Mobil$1,572,032,718389
Marathon Petroleum$1,463,707,513341
Royal Dutch Shell$1,247,600,374621
Valero Energy$1,031,274,651324
Chevron$908,262,760666
Phillips 66$653,130,475237
Williams Companies$567,845,434101
Total S.A.$483,115,982158


Individual Penalty Records:

Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
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Company Parent Primary Offense Type Year Agency Penalty Amountsort icon
Shell Oil Company et al. Royal Dutch Shell environmental violation 2018 NJ-AG $68,500,000
Noble Energy Inc. Noble Energy environmental violation 2015 EPA $73,450,000
Sinclair Oil Corp. Sinclair Oil environmental violation 2008 EPA $74,450,000
RUSSELL OIL COMPANY Russell Oil environmental violation 2005 EPA $81,277,000
Caribbean Petroleum Corporation, MetLife Capital Corporation and Water Quality Insurance Syndicate Caribbean Petroleum False Claims Act and related 2001 DOJ_CIVIL $83,500,000
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company Royal Dutch Shell benefit plan administrator violation 2005 private lawsuit-federal $90,000,000
Citgo Petroleum Corporation PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.) environmental violation 2015 EPA $90,000,000
Chevron Corporation Chevron False Claims Act and related 2000 DOJ_CIVIL $95,000,000
Burlington Resources ConocoPhillips federal leasing royalty violation 2007 DOJ_CIVIL $97,500,000
BP Energy Company BP False Claims Act and related 2018 CA-AG $102,000,000
Chevron Oil Co. Chevron tax violations 2004 LA-AG $102,000,000
Shell Oil Company Royal Dutch Shell False Claims Act and related 2001 DOJ_CIVIL $110,000,000
Conoco Inc. ConocoPhillips environmental violation 2001 EPA $116,500,000
Shell Oil Royal Dutch Shell environmental violation 2013 EPA $117,600,000
Royal Dutch Petroleum Company Royal Dutch Shell accounting fraud or deficiencies 2004 SEC $120,000,000
ENI S.p.A. and Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V. ENI Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2010 SEC $125,000,000
Motiva Enterprises LLC Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) environmental violation 2001 EPA $138,333,333
Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership Royal Dutch Shell environmental violation 2001 EPA $138,333,333
Equilon Enterprises LLC Royal Dutch Shell environmental violation 2001 EPA $138,333,333
Frontier Refining HollyFrontier environmental violation 2009 EPA $142,380,000
Atlantic Richfield BP environmental violation 2020 USAO $150,000,000
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Chevron environmental violation 2018 EPA $152,950,000
Total, S.A. Total S.A. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2013 SEC $153,000,000
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) Petrobras Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2018 DOJ_CRIMINAL $170,640,000
BP Products North America Inc. Marathon Petroleum environmental violation 2009 EPA $179,000,000
Occidental Chemical Corporation Occidental Petroleum environmental violation 2014 NJ-AG $190,000,000
ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil environmental violation 2015 NJ-AG $225,000,000
ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil environmental violation 2013 NH-AG $236,000,000
Valero Energy Corp. Valero Energy environmental violation 2007 EPA $236,250,000
Snamprogetti Netherlands B.V. ENI Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2010 DOJ_CRIMINAL $240,000,000
Total, S.A. Total S.A. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 2013 DOJ_CRIMINAL $245,200,000
BP BP consumer protection violation 2012 AK-AG $255,000,000
Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Marathon Petroleum environmental violation 2001 EPA $275,300,000
Chevron USA Chevron environmental violation 2003 EPA $278,500,000
Exxon Mobil Exxon Mobil environmental violation 2017 EPA $302,500,000
BP Products North America Inc. BP energy market manipulation 2007 CFTC $303,000,000
CITGO Petroleum PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.) environmental violation 2004 EPA $328,600,000
Marathon Petroleum Company Marathon Petroleum environmental violation 2016 EPA $334,912,500
BP North America Inc. BP environmental violation 2012 EPA $408,000,000
Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Williams Companies energy market manipulation 2002 MULTI-AG $417,000,000
Tesoro Corp. Marathon Petroleum environmental violation 2016 EPA $425,450,000
BP BP investor protection violation 2012 SEC $525,000,000
ConocoPhillips Phillips 66 environmental violation 2005 EPA $539,500,000
ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil environmental violation 2005 EPA $589,400,000
BP BP environmental violation 2001 EPA $660,000,000
Valero Valero Energy environmental violation 2005 EPA $711,000,000
BP BP environmental violation 2015 MS-AG $1,500,000,000
BP Exploration & Production Inc. (Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill) (National Case) (Lead) BP environmental violation 2016 EPA (*) $3,372,250,000
BP EXPLORATION/MOEX/TRANSOCEAN DEEPWATER/TRITON/GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL/DEEPWATER HORIZON (NC) BP environmental violation 2016 EPA (*) $3,377,250,000
BP Exploration and Production Inc. BP environmental violation 2012 DOJ $4,000,000,000
BP BP environmental violation 2015 MULTI-AG (*) $4,900,000,000
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Occidental Petroleum environmental violation 2015 EPA $5,150,000,000
BP BP environmental violation 2015 DOJ $20,800,000,000
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