LONDON (Reuters)—A British court fined oil major Total and four other companies on Friday over their role in an explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in 2005, which resulted in Europe's biggest peacetime fire.

Total was fined £6.2 million ($9.3 million) for the involvement of its joint venture with Chevron, Hertfordshire Oil Storage Ltd., according to a BBC report.

HSOL was separately fined £2.45 million ($3.7 million). Other companies fined were Motherwell Control Systems 2003 Ltd., TAV Engineering Ltd. and British Pipeline Agency Ltd.

The blast occurred when a huge vapor cloud from the spillage of petrol from the top of a storage tank ignited. It caused widespread damage to the area north of London and injured 43 people.