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Cases / Oil, gas and coal operations · Ghana · 2010–2011

Ghana committee finds Kosmos negligent over 2010 Jubilee field spills

Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.

Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
  • The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
What the record lacks: 3 none on record · 1 not measured See the gaps

A Ghanaian government committee found Kosmos Energy negligent over drilling-fluid spills at the Jubilee field in 2010 and proposed a GH¢40 million fine. A 2011 settlement was reported at $15 million; the sources reviewed do not describe the environmental damage.

What?
Drilling-fluid spills at the Jubilee field led a Ghanaian government committee to find Kosmos Energy negligent. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Where?
Jubilee field, Ghana Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
When?
Spills in 2010; settlement reported in 2011 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Who?
Gained
None on record
Lost
None on record
Harmed
None on record
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Drilling-fluid spills at the Jubilee field. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who

What happened

The record, in order.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre reported that a government committee in Ghana found Kosmos Energy negligent over drilling-fluid spills at the Jubilee field in 2010.

The committee proposed a GH¢40 million fine, and a 2011 settlement was reported at $15 million.

    In court and with insurers

    Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.

    Lawsuits and rulings

    No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.

    Insurers

    No insurer decision on record.

    What we don't know

    Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.

    Nature

    • Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.

    Record

    • None on record The sources reviewed do not say whether the GH¢40 million fine was imposed.
    • None on record The terms of the 2011 settlement are not stated in the sources reviewed.
    • None on record The sources reviewed do not describe the environmental damage from the spills.

    Did the harm stop?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Who paid?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Sources

    Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts— Press and investigations✓ Communities and civil society— Researchers

    Communities and civil society

    1. Kosmos fined 400bn cedis, Ghana
      Business & Human Rights Resource Centre ·
    Terms used on this page

    Law and courts

    Negligence and gross negligence
    Negligence is a failure to take reasonable care. Gross negligence is a serious, reckless failure; under US oil-spill law a finding of gross negligence raises the maximum penalty.
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