When does a $159.5 million fine not look so bad? When the judge could have legally slapped the defendant with a $3.5 billion fine.
In his recent calculations of the fine for Anadarko Petroleum’s role as part owner of the ill-fated Gulf of Mexico well whose blowout caused the largest U.S. offshore oil spill, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier acknowledged Anadarko’s lack of culpability.
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