Explosion at Indonesia Pertamina's refinery arm unit injures 9
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The latest incident adds to two dozen deaths from two other fires over the past month.
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JAKARTA – An explosion at a refinery owned by a Pertamina unit in western Indonesia injured nine people, the state energy firm said on Sunday, adding to two dozen deaths from two other fires over the past month.
The explosion late on Saturday in a gas compressor caused “minor” injuries from glass shards and damaged several houses in the city of Dumai on Sumatra island, Kilang Pertamina Internasional (KPI) said in a statement. The cause was under investigation.
A fire on March 3 at Pertamina’s Plumpang fuel terminal in Jakarta
Three died from a March 26 fire on a tanker
KPI apologised for Saturday’s incident, a spokesman said, adding that a “recovery process” was under way after the fire had been extinguished.
Several units were affected and stopped by the explosion and fire, but the rest were operating as usual, the spokesman said.
The spokesman did not immediately respond to a question on the impact on production or supply, but KPI said the national fuel stock was “safe”. REUTERS
