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Company: Delaware City Refinery
Current Parent Company: PBF Energy
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Penalty: $23,670,000
Year: 2005
Date: September 20, 2005
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: In 2005 Premcor Refining, then the owner of the Delaware City Refinery, agreed to spend $7.5 million on improved environmental controls. At the same time, Motiva Enterprises, which owned the facility at the time of a catastrophic explosion in 2001, agreed to pay a $12 million civil penalty, spend $4 million on supplementary environmental projects and reimburse public agencies for $170,000 in response costs. The refinery was later sold to PBF Energy.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Environment and Natural Resources Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Delaware
Facility City: Delaware City
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New Jersey
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Current Parent: oil & gas
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.