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Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s second-biggest company, was fined 3.3 million euros ($4.38 million) for underestimating carbon emissions released at a chemical site in Scotland four years ago.

The inaccuracy amounted to 4.7 percent of emissions at the Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran, which failed to surrender the correct number of European Union carbon allowances for 2008, Exxon said today in an e-mailed statement. The cause of the under-reporting was “incorrect mapping of routings within facilities,” the company said.

The producer improved emissions-verification procedures and has sought to cut output of greenhouse gases and other emissions at the plant, Exxon said.

“Exxon Mobil Chemical Ltd. notified the Scottish Environment Protection Agency that they had identified sources of carbon dioxide emissions which they had unfortunately not included within their annual reportable emissions for 2008,” the agency said Feb. 14 in an enforcement report posted on its website.