MOSCOW (MRC) -- Firefighters have put out a fire caused by a pipeline leak at a refinery in northeastern China operated by PetroChina, reported Reuters with reference to media reports on Thursday.
The fire broke out at 9:39 pm local time on Wednesday after an oil pipeline leak at No.2 oil plant PetroChina’s Fushun Petrochemical Corp in northeast China’s Liaoning province, People’s Daily reported.
The fire was put out around midnight after more than 40 fire trucks were dispatched to the site. There were no injuries, the report said.
A PetroChina spokesman said he was not aware of the accident and couldn’t immediately comment.
As MRC informed earlier, in the second half of 2012, a subsidiary of PetroChina - Fushun Petrochemical - started production of basic petrochemical products at its new plant in Fushun, Liaoning Province, China. The design capacity of the petrochemical complex is 300,000 tonnes per year of polypropylene (PP), 350,000 tonnes per year of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and 450,000 tonnes per year of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE).
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,724,670 tonnes in the first ten months of 2019, up by 7% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. The estimated PP consumption in the Russian market in January-October 2019 totalled 1,066,520 tonnes, up by 7% year on year. Supply of block copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymer) and homopolymer of propylene (homopolymer PP) increased, demand for statistical copolymers (PP random copolymer) decreased.
PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. It is China's biggest oil producer and the most profitable company in Asia.
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