As of December 31, 2021, the company had 97 million barrels of oil equivalent (590,000,000 GJ) of estimated proved reserves, of which 87% was petroleum and 13% was natural gas.
[4][5] In February 2017, Linn Energy completed a financial restructure that included the corporate spin-off of Berry into a separate company.
In August 1994, Berry agreed to pay $600,000 and pleaded no contest to a single misdemeanor charge of failing to report the leak.
In addition, the foreman on duty during the spill pleaded no contest to a charge of illegally releasing oil into marine water and was ordered to perform 320 hours of beach cleanup.
The civil case from the state attorney general's office was settled in January 1997, when the company agreed to a $3.2 million fine.