Fire breaks out at BPCL's Mumbai refinery, several injured
8/8/2018 4:28:12 PM
MUMBAI (Reuters) - State-run Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd shut a hydrocracker unit at its Mumbai refinery following a fire that left 40 people injured, said a top company official.
“We have shut the hydrocracker and assessment will be done on Thursday to know how long we need to keep it shut,” R Ramachandran, head of refineries, told Reuters.
The remaining units at the 120,000-barrel-per-day refinery in the western Indian state of Maharashtra are operating normally, he added.
The fire started around 0915 GMT in the compressor shed of the hydrocracker plant, the company said in a statement.
Reporting by Nidhi Verma and Krishna V Kurup; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu
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