Reuters 3 June 2011
Concerns over refining safety have reverberated through the U.S. oil industry since an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City in 2005, after which BP said safety shortcomings were common across the sector.
"We have immediately launched our own investigation which will run in tandem with the HSE's (Britain's Health and Safety Executive regulator) own investigation," a Chevron spokeswoman said in a statement read out at the plant.
"One storage tank is out of action and another is damaged but other than that the plant remains fully operational. However, given the circumstances, non-essential work has been suspended today."
"Tank maintenance is a regular occurrence and this was planned work involving members of our contractor workforce, routine work which had been carried out before.
"The tank contained a component which refiners routinely use in the refining process," the Chevron spokeswoman said.
According to the HSE's enforcement database, the Pembroke plant had received one enforcement notice in recent years.
This criticized the plant for "failure to demonstrate the company had identified safety instrumented systems," though the HSE noted the enforcement notice had been complied with.
Concerns over refining safety have reverberated through the U.S. oil industry since an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City in 2005, after which BP said safety shortcomings were common across the sector.
"We have immediately launched our own investigation which will run in tandem with the HSE's (Britain's Health and Safety Executive regulator) own investigation," a Chevron spokeswoman said in a statement read out at the plant.
"One storage tank is out of action and another is damaged but other than that the plant remains fully operational. However, given the circumstances, non-essential work has been suspended today."
"Tank maintenance is a regular occurrence and this was planned work involving members of our contractor workforce, routine work which had been carried out before.
"The tank contained a component which refiners routinely use in the refining process," the Chevron spokeswoman said.
According to the HSE's enforcement database, the Pembroke plant had received one enforcement notice in recent years.
This criticized the plant for "failure to demonstrate the company had identified safety instrumented systems," though the HSE noted the enforcement notice had been complied with.
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