Oil Company Agrees To Pay $16 Million To Resolve Alleged Royalty Underpayments

(November 2, 2023, 1:23 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Public Affairs in a Nov. 1 press release announced that a natural gas company has agreed to pay the United States $16 million in exchange for resolution of allegations that the company underpaid royalties it owed to the United States pursuant to federal and Native American land leases under which it produces natural gas....