October 24, 2017
A Texas federal court on Monday granted a Statoil unit's limited request to revise an order dismissing the company's case over a government-imposed royalty penalty of more than $400,000, agreeing to remove a section that said an agency action wasn't final and paving the way for a new challenge to the fine.
October 02, 2017
A Texas federal judge tossed as premature Friday a Statoil unit's claims that by issuing the harshest penalties for inadvertent reporting errors, the U.S. Department of the Interior subverted the congressionally approved civil penalty structure for companies that fail their federal oil and gas royalty obligations.
March 29, 2017
With settlement negotiations in the works, a Texas federal judge on Tuesday stayed a suit from Statoil ASA's U.S. upstream unit accusing the federal government of subverting the congressionally approved civil penalty structure for failing to meet oil and gas royalty obligations by treating inadvertent reporting errors as serious violations.
April 01, 2016
Statoil ASA's U.S. upstream unit told a Texas federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Department of Interior is subverting the congressionally approved civil penalty structure for failing to meet federal oil and gas royalty obligations by treating inadvertent reporting errors as serious violations subject to the harshest penalties.