DOJ reaches multimillion-dollar settlements against oil and gas companies

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4. $16 million in repairs & upgrades combined...is not justice. I assume they also admit no wrongdoing?

For perspective:

“US refiners increased planned maintenance spending by an estimated 38.5% to $1.26 billion dollars in 2018… (HPI Market Data, 2018b).” This means that an average US refinery spends over $9 million dollars on the maintenance annually. It’s well-known that the later a defect is identified, the greater the costs and losses become."

https://www.digitalrefining.com/article/1002399/where-transparency-driven-value-comes-from#:~:text=(HPI%20Market%20Data%2C%202018b),the%20costs%20and%20losses%20become.