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Company Number: 140141
Penalty: £140,000
Year: 2011
Date: 17 June, 2011
Offence Group: environment-related offences
Offence Type: environmental violation
Violation Description: Shell UK Limited were fined a total of £710,000 in environmental fines across 5 charges (1 charge at £150,000 and 4 charges at £140,000). This was for an explosion at its North Sea gas terminal at Bacton, on the Norfolk coast, which released tonnes of firewater and foam into the North Sea in 2008
Action Type: agency action
Settlement Type: Court Case
Agency: Environment Agency
HQ Country of Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Parent: oil & gas
Source of Data: Contained in data received in response to a Freedom of Information request for a spreadsheet version of data contained in the Environment Agency Public Register at (click here)