text: Hilcorp Alaska was fined $100,000 by the federal agency to settle violations by that company, the EPA said.
  
   Hilcorp in February 2015 spilled nearly 10,000 gallons of crude oil and produced water from a leak in the bottom of a pipeline at the Milne Point field. The spill affected 40,000 square feet of Arctic tundra and gravel pad, the agency said. 
  
  
  The spill was initially reported as 4,000 gallons, and occurred from a relatively new pipeline.