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4th August 2010, 12:47 PM
Massive Refinery Explosion in Iran
LONDON (Dow Jones)--A massive explosion killed five workers Wednesday at a giant energy complex in Southern Iran, the second such incident in less than two weeks.
The Iranian oil ministry's website Shana said the workers had been killed after an accident during a maintenance operation, and that the fire was now under control. The semi-official Mehr news agency said the explosion was due to a ruptured gas pipe.
The explosion took place in the southern port city of Assaluyeh, at the Pardis Petrochemical Co. of which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the second phase last month. Shana said production at the second phase was continuing.
Assaluyeh is home to the Pars Special Energy Economic Zone, a giant energy complex that uses natural gas from the neighboring South Pars field.
The explosion comes after a fire at another petrochemical killed four people on July 25 at the southern Kharg island.
Iran's energy industry, which suffers from decades of underinvestment, has been hit at least two large explosions at oil and gas fields since the begining of the year.
A fire at an oil well in Western Iran was extinguinshed on July 8 after burning for nearly 40 days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...04-711906.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100804-711906.html
LONDON (Dow Jones)--A massive explosion killed five workers Wednesday at a giant energy complex in Southern Iran, the second such incident in less than two weeks.
The Iranian oil ministry's website Shana said the workers had been killed after an accident during a maintenance operation, and that the fire was now under control. The semi-official Mehr news agency said the explosion was due to a ruptured gas pipe.
The explosion took place in the southern port city of Assaluyeh, at the Pardis Petrochemical Co. of which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated the second phase last month. Shana said production at the second phase was continuing.
Assaluyeh is home to the Pars Special Energy Economic Zone, a giant energy complex that uses natural gas from the neighboring South Pars field.
The explosion comes after a fire at another petrochemical killed four people on July 25 at the southern Kharg island.
Iran's energy industry, which suffers from decades of underinvestment, has been hit at least two large explosions at oil and gas fields since the begining of the year.
A fire at an oil well in Western Iran was extinguinshed on July 8 after burning for nearly 40 days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...04-711906.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100804-711906.html