Archives: Incidents
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| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20/01/2015 | Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (Co-owned by Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos)) | Deer Park and others fined for Clean Air Act violations. Civil penalty - $900,000. | Texas, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 19/04/2002 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Lyondell Chemical Company) (Access Industries) | Companies found liable for dumping fuel additive MTBE in Tahoe lake. Shell & Lyondell also withheld information over its defects. Settlement - $33 million. | San Francisco, CA, United States | Planetark, Reuters | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 02/02/2016 | Saipem (Co-owned by Eni) | Court jails six over charges of corruption against Sonatrach, including money laundering, awarding contracts contrary to the law and regulations, and hiking the prices of contracts - Saipem, together with Contel-Funkwerk, also fined $38,000. | Algeria | Reuters | Bribing & Corruption, Fraud | |
| 02/02/2016 | Sonatrach | Court jails six over charges of corruption against Sonatrach, money laundering, awarding contracts contrary to the law and regulations and hiking the prices of contracts. | Algeria | Reuters | Bribing & Corruption, Fraud | |
| 14/08/2013 | China National Petroleum | Operations of CNPC's subsidiary in Chad entirely suspended by country’s government after violation of environmental standards. | Chad | Reuters | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 31/01/1995 - 01/01/1991 | Chevron | Illegal bypassing of waste water treatments at refinery and failure to notify public about toxic releases - $540,000. | Richmond, California, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 02/07/2011 | Exxon Mobil | 'Yellowstone River' oil spill occurs after pipeline raptures; estimated 1000 barrels of oil leak into river; Oil executives criticised for conflicting accounts of breach and regulators accused of failing to ensure safe operation. | Yellowstone River, MT, United States | The Guardian | Fraud, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 30/11/2008 - 01/10/2008 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | US Regulators allege that BP manipulated the gas market through fraudulently trading physical natural gas in markets and trading points to increase the value of financial swing spread positions. | Texas, US | Reuters | Fraud, Market Fraud & Antitrust | |
| 31/12/2004 - 01/01/2003 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | BP charged with cornering and manipulating the price of TET propane in 2003 and 2004 - $303 million in restitution and fines as part of an agreement to defer prosecution. | United States | US Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Consumer Deception, Fraud, Market Fraud & Antitrust | |
| 24/11/2011 - 10/11/2011 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Accusations of "intentionally misleading the public about the seriousness" of a two-week release of toxic fumes, allegedly causing the affected county to have the worst air quality in the US. | Galveston County, TX, United States | Courthouse News Service | Consumer Deception, Fraud, Pollution |