# CABOT OIL & GAS CORP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19593`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0232
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $5K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CABOT OIL AND GAS CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE RESPONDNET, CABOT OIL AND GAS CORP. ( CABOT ), PRODUCES  AND SELLS CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS.  CABOT OWNS AND         OPERATES A 4,200 GALLON AST WHICH IS USED IN CONJUNCTION     WITH A PRODUCTION WELL IN THE CABWAYLINGO STATE FOREST.  THE AST IS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF A STREAM KNOWN AS THE      SWEETWATER BRANCH, WHICH IS A TRIBUTARY OF THE TWELVEPOLE    CREEK, A TRIBUTARY OF THE OHIO RIVER.  ON OR ABOVE NOVEMBER  14, 2000, CABOT DISCOVERED THAT AT LEAST FORTY-TWO BARRELS   OF OIL HAD BEEN DISCHARGED FROM THE AST.  ALTHOUGH THE OIL   REPORTEDLY ESCAPED THROUGH A HOLE IN THE AST CAUSED BY A     BULLET FIRED BY AN UNKNOWN THIRD-PARTY, THE SECONDARY        CONTAINMENT AROUND THE AST APPARENTLY FAILED, ALLOWING       APPROXIMATELY NINE BARRELS OF OIL TO ENTER THE SWEETWATER    BRANCH AND ANOTHER TWENTY-FIVE BARRELS OF OIL TO REACH THE   ADJOINING SHORELINE OF THE SWEETWATER BRANCH.  THE SPILLED   OIL CAUSED A VISIBLE SHEEN UPON THE SURFACE OF THE SWEET-    WATER BRANCH AND THEREBY CONSTITUED A DISCHARGE OF OIL IN    HARMFUL QUANTITIES INTO NAVIGABLE WATERS IN VIOLATION OF     SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, AS AMENDED,        ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTION 13321(B)(3).

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