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Company: Amplify Energy
Current Parent Company: Amplify Energy Corp.
Penalty: $4,900,000
Year: 2022
Date: September 8, 2022
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: The California Attorney General and the Orange County District Attorney Tannounced the filing and settling of misdemeanor charges against Amplify Energy for discharging approximately 25,000 gallons of petroleum from an underwater pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach in October 2021. As part of a plea agreement entered in Orange County Superior Court, Amplify pled no contest to six misdemeanor charges, paid $4.9 million in fines and penalties to the state and the county in what is believed to be the largest state misdemeanor criminal fine in Orange County history, and was placed on probation for 12 months.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Multi-Jurisdiction Case
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Facility State: California
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Texas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Current Parent: oil and natural gas development and production
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.