900 000 pounds fine for double fatality on Shell Expro's Brent Bravo offshore platform

摘要

SHELL UK LIMITED, trading as Shell UK Exploration and Production (Shell Expro), was fined a total of 900 000 pounds on 27 April 2005, following the deaths of 2 workers on Shell Expro's Brent Bravo offshore production platform. Sean McCue and Keith Moncrieff were inspecting pipework in the utility leg of the installation, located around 180 miles east of the Shetland isles, when they were overcome by a large release of hydrocarbon gas. This took place on 11 September 2003.