Fire causes oil unit to shut down
By Richard Fu |
July 19, 2011, Tuesday
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PETROCHINA Co, the nation's second-largest refiner, has shut down a crude distillation unit at its largest refinery in Dalian in Liaoning Province, following a fire on Saturday.
The blaze was caused by a leak at a heat exchanger of the 200,000 barrel-per-day unit, PetroChina's parent, China National Petroleum Corp, said in a newsletter yesterday. The Dalian refinery has a capacity of 410,000 barrels per day.
The fire, which started in the afternoon, was put out around 8pm on Saturday.
No casualties were reported, CNPC said. The fire did not cause sea or air pollution, CNPC said, citing environmental authorities.
The company also said it has worked out a plan to resume production, without elaborating.
The Saturday incident happened exactly one year after PetroChina's pipeline exploded, also in Dalian. On July 16, 2010, a pipeline blast at Dalian's Xingang port caused a major oil spill in the Yellow Sea.
The fire is the latest in a string of environmental accidents in China's oil industry in recent months.
Two oil spill incidents last month in an oilfield operated by United States major ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay released about 1,500 barrels of oil and oil-based drilling fluids into the sea.
The blaze was caused by a leak at a heat exchanger of the 200,000 barrel-per-day unit, PetroChina's parent, China National Petroleum Corp, said in a newsletter yesterday. The Dalian refinery has a capacity of 410,000 barrels per day.
The fire, which started in the afternoon, was put out around 8pm on Saturday.
No casualties were reported, CNPC said. The fire did not cause sea or air pollution, CNPC said, citing environmental authorities.
The company also said it has worked out a plan to resume production, without elaborating.
The Saturday incident happened exactly one year after PetroChina's pipeline exploded, also in Dalian. On July 16, 2010, a pipeline blast at Dalian's Xingang port caused a major oil spill in the Yellow Sea.
The fire is the latest in a string of environmental accidents in China's oil industry in recent months.
Two oil spill incidents last month in an oilfield operated by United States major ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay released about 1,500 barrels of oil and oil-based drilling fluids into the sea.
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