Pembroke refinery explosion sentence delivered
Valero Energy UK Ltd (formerly known as Chevron Ltd) have been fined by Mr Justice Lewis at Swansea Crown Court £5 million and made to pay £1 million costs in relation to the explosion at the Pembroke oil refinery in June 2011. which tragically left four contractors dead and one very badly burned.
Simon Antrobus KC represented Chevron together with Mark Ellison KC and they were instructed by Herbert Smith LLP.