Shipping companies reach $97M California oil spill agreement

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Amplify Energy, the Houston-based company that operates the pipeline, said Wednesday that companies associated with the M/V Danit and M/V Beijing had agreed to the payments.

in the waters off California and striking the pipeline during a January 2021 storm, which months later led to the spill of 25,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean.Advertisement

“The resolution of Amplify’s claims against the vessels and their affiliated entities concludes our involvement in the litigation related to the 2021 pipeline incident," Martyn Willsher, Amplify’s president and chief executive, said in the statement.While less severe than initially feared, the oil spill sent blobs of crude washing ashore, shuttered beaches for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened area wetlands.

Southern California fishermen, tourism companies and property owners sued Amplify and the shipping vessels seeking compensation for their losses. Amplify

 

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