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Fire in RIL refinery unit

Oommen A. Ninan

MUMBAI: A secondary processing unit in the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, caught fire on Wednesday morning. However, the company said the fire was doused in less than two hours.

"This morning at about 10.40 a.m., there was a fire in one of the secondary processing units (VGO Hydrotreater - II) of the refinery at Jamnagar. One of the Reliance personnel is seriously injured," the company said in a press release.

The Reliance plant and fire fighting personnel brought the blaze under control in less than two hours. '

The exact extent of the damage to the VGO Hydrotreater II unit, which is one of the 40 units in the complex, is being assessed, it said.

"As a pre-cautionary measure, the neighbouring Diesel Hydrotreating Unit - II has been shut down safely. We expect to restart it shortly."

Other units normal

All other units, including the crude and petrochemical ones, were operating normally, the release said.

Ahmedabad Special Correspondent reports:

The RIL claimed that the fire would not cause any substantial impact on its production.

The refinery, with a 33 million tonnes a year production capacity, processes about 24 per cent of the country's total requirements of petrol and other petroleum products.

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