Five and a half years after a man and his wife died from poison gas emitted at a Permian Basin well site near Odessa, Texas, an oilfield company and its vice president have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the deadly incident.
Aghorn Operating Inc. was fined $1 million while a serving company, Kodiak Roustabout will pay $400,000. Aghorn’s Vice President Trent Day was given a five-month prison sentence.
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