Total Settles Lawsuit
Posted/updated on: February 24, 2012 at 2:34 am
TEXARKANA (AP) — The French oil giant Total has agreed to pay $15 million to the U.S. government to settle federal allegations that Total underpaid royalties for natural gas taken from federal and American Indian lands. In a statement issued Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department says an assortment of Total S.A. subsidiaries and affiliates reached the settlement in a case pending in a U.S. District Court in Texarkana.
