PetroChina's plant on fire in NE China
(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2011-07-16 16:44Fire on a leaked petrochemical device has been put under control with no casualties reported in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning province, company sources said Saturday evening.
The fire was triggered off by leak in a distillation device at the Dalian Petrochemical Company of PetroChina, a leading onshore oil producer of the nation, at around 2:25 p.m. Saturday.
But experts said the fire would continue for a certain period of time as the device still had about 100 metric tons of inflammable matter.
There is no explosive factor surrounding the device on fire, according to company sources.
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Fire and smoke engulf a distillation device at the Dalian Petrochemical Company of PetroChina, a leading onshore oil producer of the nation, in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, July 16, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] The picture was uploaded to China's micro blog weibo.com by Liu Wanheng, a reporter at Dalian Evening News. [Photo/Liu Wanheng] Related: Oil pipeline blast in 2010 in Dalian |
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Fire and smoke engulf a distillation device at the Dalian Petrochemical Company of PetroChina, a leading onshore oil producer of the nation, in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, July 16, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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Fire and smoke engulf a distillation device at the Dalian Petrochemical Company of PetroChina, a leading onshore oil producer of the nation, in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, July 16, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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