Oil company fined £500,000

An oil company has been fined £500,000 following liquid petroleum gas leak in November 2015. The leak went undetected for around four hours before being discovered by an employee cycling home at the end of his shift. It took a further hour to establish the source of the leak with on-site emergency personnel having to enter the area to reset the valve.  An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the leak occurred because LPG was put through the pipe work at too a high a pressure for the valve, there was no process in place to detect the discrepancy in the flow in the pipe and that the company had failed to take all measures necessary to prevent a major incident. https://press.hse.gov.uk/2021/12/07/oil-company-fined-following-liquid-petroleum-gas-leak