# NEWFIELD EXPLORATION COMPANY, A DELAWARE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38478`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0786
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $50K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NEWFIELD EXPLORATION COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(G)(2) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(G)(2).                                2. NEWFIELD EXPLORATION COMPANY, A DELAWARE CORPORATION         363 NORTH SAM HOUSTON PARKWAY EASE, SUITE 2020               HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77060                          FACILITIES: OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OF THE WESTERN GULF                  OF MEXICO                                     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING POLLUTIONS FROM ITS OFFSHORE FACILITIES THAT     EXCEEDED PERMITTED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS, AS SHOWN IN THE     CERTIFIED DMRS FILED WITH EPA.                            4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(G)(2) OF THE CWA,      EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY OF $137,500 FOR THE VIOLA-      TIONS CITED.

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