The Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice conducted an investigation into whether former Halliburton subsidiary KBR was among several companies that paid $180 million in bribes to win a contract to build a natural gas liquefaction plant in Nigeria in the 1990s. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation focused on the activity of a joint venture that included KBR and three other companies. In February 2009, Halliburton and KBR settled with the SEC and DOJ. Halliburton agreed to pay $382 million and an additional $177 million in disgorgement. Halliburton entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the DOJ. A subsidiary of KBR pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the FCPA and to substantive counts charging violations of the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA.