Common Contracts

SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL JUDGMENT ON CONSENT

November 19th, 2015

• Filed
  November 19th, 2015

WHEREAS, the United States, on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Department of the Interior’s “(DOI”) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”), filed a civil environmental enforcement action against ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (“ATP”) and ATP Infrastructure Partners, LP (“ATP-IP”) in the federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on February 11, 2013. The Complaint alleges 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, and seeks civil penalties and injunctive relief pursuant to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) and injunctive relief pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”);