Sunday, July 29, 2007

CPC's Kaohsiung Crude Oil Unit in Taiwan Is Unaffected by Yesterday's Fire

(Bloomberg) -- CPC Corp., Taiwan's state-owned oil
refiner, said a crude distillation unit at its Kaohsiung
refinery in the southern part of the island was unaffected by a
fire yesterday. No one was hurt in the incident.

The fire, which broke out during an attempt to restart the
unit, was extinguished within 10 minutes, Jessica Tang, a
Taipei-based spokeswoman, said by telephone today. The plant,
which can process 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day into fuels
including gasoline and diesel, has closed since June 6 for
scheduled maintenance.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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