Firm to pay $9.5M in GoM cases

Wood Group PSN Inc., a Nevada corporation headquartered in Houston, was ordered to pay $9.5 million in two separate cases involving incidents in the Gulf of Mexico. Wood Group PSN was ordered to pay $7 million for falsely reporting, for several years, that its personnel had performed safety inspections on offshore facilities in the GoM’s Western District of Louisiana, and $1.8 million for negligently discharging oil into the Gulf in violation of the Clean Water Act after an explosion on an offshore facility in the Eastern District of Louisiana, according to Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeff Wood of the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Stephanie A. Finley, and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Kenneth A. Polite. Wood Group PSN was also ordered to pay $700,000 in community service to projects in the areas where the criminal conduct took place. (Source: Marine Link 02/27/17)