Fines

EOG Resources Inc. has agreed to pay the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) $93,710 to settle a late 2010 pollution incident in the Marcellus Shale.

Williams and ConocoPhillips have agreed to pay fines totaling nearly $250,000 and reduce emissions from some facilities to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at the Southern Ute Reservation in Colorado’s San Juan Basin near Durango, CO, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Chief Oil & Gas LLC has paid $180,000 in fines for two violations discovered last year at a well in Somerset County, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said Tuesday.

Pennsylvania regulators said they are sending a message after slapping Chesapeake Energy Corp. with combined fines that total nearly $1.09 million for violations related to natural gas drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale.

Seminole Energy Services LLC and Natural Fuel Marketing Co. LLC (NFM) and their affiliates face fines of more than $861,000 for violations associated with the bidding for capacity on Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline during a March 2007 open season.

Seminole Energy Services LLC and Natural Fuel Marketing Co. LLC (NFM) and their affiliates face fines of more than $861,000 for violations associated with the bidding for capacity on Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline during a March 2007 open season.

Two bills aimed at revamping West Virginia’s quarter-century-old drilling regulations are slated for introduction in the state legislature this week. The measures, variously directed at water management and horizontal drilling, would also increase horizontal well permit fees from $400 to $10,000.

Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. (Transco) faces penalties and up to $952,500 in fines following an investigation into a pipeline rupture and fire in September 2008 near Appomattox, VA, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said this week.

Whether Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay does any jail time or pays any fines for allegedly violating banking rules now rests in the hands of U.S. District Judge Sim Lake. The case against Lay, who was charged with four counts of personal bank fraud, was completed on Tuesday.