Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has agreed to pay a $2.2 million civil fine to settle charges it violated the Clean Water Act after a subsea pipeline crack at the Green Canyon field saw 1,900 barrels of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico in May 2016.
According to The Times-Picayune, the fine will be paid after the expiration of a 30-day comment period and deposited in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
The fine is in addition to $3.9m Shell Offshore agreed to pay last year to US state and federal agencies.
Shell has also agreed to improve its leak-detection training program, and will develop training that incorporates the set of circumstances that led to the 2016 spill.
