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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Syrian civil defense
teams were extinguishing a huge fire that swept a number of oil tankers loading
crude oil from an installation near the country's main Homs refinery after a
blast that hit the depot area, reported Reuters with reference to state media's
statement.
An explosion had earlier hit a government-owned crude oil
transportation company in the city and oil tankers loading crude oil from the
installation then caught fire, state media reported.
The governor of
Homs, Bassam Barsik, was quoted on state media as saying civil defense teams
were working on extinguishing the fire that erupted during "the loading of crude
oil".
"There are no human casualties and we are working on containing the
spread of the fire," Barsik said.
It was not clear if the explosions were
an accident or the result of sabotage in a war-torn country where violence has
subsided but insurgents and rebels still wage attacks in government-held
areas.
There have been hit-and-run attacks on government forces in the
central province of Homs in recent months by remnants of Islamic State militants
who take shelter in outlying, sparsely populated areas.
The Russian air
force has also been active in recent weeks in helping the Syrian army bomb
suspected hideouts of militants in the Homs area.
As MRC informed before,
in early February, 2020, a fire in Syria’s Homs refinery was put out by
civil defense and the refinery firefighting unit, shortly after a gas compressor
in the 6th project exploded.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for
producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report,
PE imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and
reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the
greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia
increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months
of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase
in imports. |
