A Fire Broke Out at PetroChina Dalian Petrochemical

According to SCI, a fire broke out at the heavy oil catalytic cracker of PetroChina Dalian Petrochemical Company at around 6:36 p.m. on August 17. The fire was caused by a broken seal in a feed pump. More than 600 firefighters put out the fire at the catalytic cracker at around 9:00 p.m., China Central Television reported. No abnormal emissions or pollution of citizens’ drinking water was caused by the fire, and no injuries were reported as of 10:00 a.m. on August 18. The crude processing operations of the refinery were not affected.

PetroChina Dalian Petrochemical Company has three crude distillation units with the total oil processing capacity of 20,500kt/year, and the capacity of its catalytic cracker is 5,700kt/year.

China is strengthening the environmental protection inspection and safe production checks at present. This incident may attract more attention on the safe production of state-owned refineries, as well as independent refineries. But no comments are available from the government and PetroChina now.