Pipeline Operator Owes California Royalties Over Oil Disruption

摘要

Plains Pipeline LP lost its bid to overturn a California appellate court's ruling that the company is liable for an interruption in oil and gas service caused by a burst pipeline after the state's top court refused to consider the case Wednesday.California's State Lands Commission leased offshore land to Venoco Inc., from which oil and gas were eventually pumped into a pipeline operated by Plains, the agency said in its lawsuit against Plains.