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Company: BP Exploration & Production Inc. (Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill) (National Case) (Lead)
Current Parent Company: BP
Penalty: $3,372,250,000
Year: 2016
Date: April 4, 2016
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Mega-Scandal: Deepwater Horizon
Violation Description: Primary laws: CWA; CWA; CWA; CWA, Violation type: Oil Spill Violation Under CWA/OPA
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 06-2011-4881
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Current Parent: oil & gas
Source of Data: Extracted from a download of the EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) ICIS FE&C file updated 11/30/2024, available at (click here)
Notes: Note: This penalty is a duplicate of an amount shown in another record (either because it applies to a multi-location settlement or because Violation Tracker contains an agency record and a settlement announcement for the same case).
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ECHO Case ID: 06-2011-4881
Link to ECHO: You can access EPA ECHO data on this facility here
Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.