The owner of several Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases challenged the Interior Department’s allegedly unlawful decision to affirm denials of the company’s refund and allowance requests.
The agency’s decision to affirm the denials wasn’t based on an objective audit and violated the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act, Woodside Energy Americas Inc. said in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
The DOI’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue denied Woodside’s 2017 requests for refunds related to payments for oil and gas sold between February 2011 and ...
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