Friday, October 26, 2007

BP hit by FERC fine

BP has been fined $7 million by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for violations of agency rules related to interstate natural gas pipeline and storage facilities.


FERC's penalty comes on top of $373 million in fines and restitution BP agreed to pay other US regulators for a deadly explosion at its Texas City oil refinery, oil spills on its Alaska pipeline and manipulation of the US propane market. In the FERC case, the violations involved thousands of individual transactions in 2005 and 2006 related to BP's management of customers' rights to ship and store natural gas. In addition to the penalty, BP will implement a compliance monitoring plan for at least one year under FERC supervision.


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