The Los Angeles (LA) City Attorney has filed 25 counts against embattled exploration and production operator AllenCo Energy Inc. for alleged environmental, health and safety violations at an oil production facility.

The wellsite has been under scrutiny by the Department of Conservation’s California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), which in March issued a remedial order mandating AllenCo develop a plan, depressurize and kill the 21 wells at its inoperable St. James oil drilling facility.

CalGEM director Uduak-Joe Ntuk said AllenCo was ordered to submit a compliance work plan but it had failed to comply, and its facility “continues to be a potential risk to public health, safety and the environment.”

Ntuk last year issued a letter to AllenCo verifying that...