INDIA TRIES TO SET UP COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM TO FIGHT AND PREVENT OIL REFINERY FIRES
June 1st, 2008
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
INDIA has had its share of bad luck as regards refinery fires. Within a span of four months in 2006-07, the western coast district of Jamnagar, Gujurat state, saw two major fires in refineries operated by private companies.
In the first fire at Reliance Industries refinery, a vacuum gas oil hydrotreater unit, which separates sulphur from crude oil, was destroyed. The second fire broke out in the pipeline that links Essar Oil's Vadinar refinery, also in Gujurat, to a jetty. Though, here the damage was controlled but four ...
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