# AMOCO PIPELINE CO.
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `50840`
- **Case Number:** 08-1997-0199
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $45K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMOCO PIPELINE CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON 7/17/95, A RELEASE OF OIL OCCURRED WHEN A CHECK VALVE     SEPARATING AN ACTIVE PORTION OF A 4  CRUDE OIL GATHERING     LINE FROM AN INACTIVE LINE FAILED AND CRUDE OIL LEAKED OUT   OF A CORRODED SECTION OF THE ABANDONED LINE.  THE DISCHARGE  TOOK PLACE ON BOTH PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT LANDS.  THE CRUDE  OIL REACHED THE SOIL SURFACE AND FOLLWED A DRAW DOWNHILL     TOWARDS LAKE SAKAKAWEA.  APPROXIMATELY 100 TO 150 BARRELS    OF OIL WERE RELEASED TO THE LAND; OF THESE, AN ESTIMATED     15 TO 20 BARRELS ACTUALLY FLOWED INTO THE WATER.

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