Anadarko Official Says Company Didn't Pay Response, Cleanup Costs for 2010 Gulf Spill

摘要

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. didn't pay any response or cleanup costs related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a witness for the company told a judge in a trial to determine pollution fines for the disaster (In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, E.D. La., No. MDL-2179, oral argument 2/2/15). That may undermine Anadarko's argument that it shouldn't be fined for the spill, while the U.S. government seeks more than $ 1 billion from the company. "Under the Oil Pollution Act, a responsible party, which you were named as, has a duty, an obligation to pay response costs and cleanup costs," U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said during testimony Monday by Darrell Hollek, an Anadarko executive. "Did you ever pay directly any response costs or cleanup costs?" Barbier asked. "Did Anadarko ever pay that?" Hollek said the company didn't pay any of those costs.