Reuters
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* Plant's safety record no worse than peers-HSE
* Plant due to be sold to Valero Energy
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LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and one was seriously injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in southwest Wales, the plant's owner Chevron Corp (CVX.N) said on Friday.
Britain's Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulator said it would be on site on Friday to begin an investigation in which the Environment Agency would also participate.
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.
According to a HSE's enforcement database, the Pembroke plant had received one enforcement notice in recent years.
This criticised the plant for "failure to demonstrate the company had identified safety instrumented systems", though the HSE noted the enforcement notice had been complied with.
By comparison, four enforcement notices were issued to the Coryton refinery in southeast England, which was owned by BP before being sold to Swiss-based Petroplus Holdings AG PPHN.VX, and three notices were given to Exxon Mobil Corp's (XOM.N) Fawley refinery in southern England.
(Deletes first bullet point noting earlier media report)
* Plant's safety record no worse than peers-HSE
* Plant due to be sold to Valero Energy
(Adds comment by Chevron spokeswoman)
LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and one was seriously injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in southwest Wales, the plant's owner Chevron Corp (CVX.N) said on Friday.
Britain's Health & Safety Executive (HSE) regulator said it would be on site on Friday to begin an investigation in which the Environment Agency would also participate.
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.
According to a HSE's enforcement database, the Pembroke plant had received one enforcement notice in recent years.
This criticised the plant for "failure to demonstrate the company had identified safety instrumented systems", though the HSE noted the enforcement notice had been complied with.
By comparison, four enforcement notices were issued to the Coryton refinery in southeast England, which was owned by BP before being sold to Swiss-based Petroplus Holdings AG PPHN.VX, and three notices were given to Exxon Mobil Corp's (XOM.N) Fawley refinery in southern England.
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