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State fines oil company more than $2 million after spill

The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department fined an oil and gas company operating in the Permian Basin more than $2 million over produced water spilled at two separate well sites south of Carlsbad. EMNRD says Murchison Oil and Gas, LLC failed to properly report and clean up the produced water spills. If produced water—a […]