Mongstad oil refinery evacuates 300 workers after gas leak

OSLO (Reuters) - Equinor’s Mongstad oil refinery on Norway’s west coast evacuated 300 workers and halted part of its gasoline production following a leak, the company said. 

The spill of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) led to an emergency shutdown of the refinery’s naphtha-making unit, however there were no injuries, Equinor spokeswoman Elin Isaksen said.

“Part of the gasoline production has stopped as a consequence, not all,” she said.

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