Multiple blasts in Gujarat Refinery pipeline, seven injured

Vadodara

Seven employees of the Gujarat Refinery of the India Oil Corporation at Koyali in Vadodara district including two officers were injured in an accident in its premises late last night, official sources said today.

Two officers, one operator and four labourerers sustained burn injuries when multiple blasts in the overheated crude supply line took place in the AU 2 unit of the refinery at around 1230 hrs last night, the fire brigade control room of the city said.

The injured were admitted to a private hospital here. The leakage in the pipe was being repaired. There were at least five blasts in the pipeline due to overheating.

Gujarat refinery, western India’s second largest refinery of the public sector company, was commissioned in 1965-1966. Its facilities include five atmospheric crude distillation units. The major units include CRU, FCCU and the first Hydrocracking unit of the country.

It has an installed crude processing capacity of 13.7 million metric tonnes per annum and it processes indigenous and imported, both low sulphur and high sulphur grades of crude oil. The product slate includes besides fuels, petrochemical products such as Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB), Polypropylene Feed Stock, Food and Polymer Grade Hexane.

– DeshGujarat