Houston-based ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (ATP O&G) and its subsidiary, ATP Infrastructure Partners (ATP-IP), recently seized a chance to settle a civil environmental enforcement action brought against them by the federal government on the grounds of polluting the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
On Feb. 11, 2013, the United States of America brought the suit against the two companies in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). If approved, the proposed settlement will end over two years of litigation based on allegations that the two companies were responsible for the unlawful discharges of oil and an unpermitted chemical dispersant, as well as permit violations, from the offshore oil and gas production platform known as the “ATP Innovator” into the Gulf of Mexico.
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