Statoil gets million dollar fine for North Sea spill

Norwegian oil company Statoil has been sentenced to pay a fine of USD 1.69 million in a case that date backs to 2009, when a leakage was discovered in Statoil's petroleum field Veslefrikk in the North Sea during a routine inspection of the ocean floor, where a ten meters deep crater was found just four meters from the drill hole.
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