Judge rules BP didn’t violate probationBeistline says government failed to prove negligence in 2009 pipeline rupture and oil spill in Lisburne field on Alaska’s North Slope Wesley Loy For Petroleum News
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. did not violate its probation as a consequence of a pipeline rupture and oil spill in the Lisburne field, a federal judge ruled Dec. 27.
In a 13-page decision, U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline of Anchorage held that prosecutors had “failed to establish by a prepond....
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