MOSCOW (MRC) -- A small fire at Shell Moerdijk caused a red glow in the air that concerned local residents on Wednesday night, reported NL Times.
According to the fire department, the red glow was caused by flaring, which they used to get the small fire quickly under control.
The fire broke out in a compressor room around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. It took firefighters about an hour to get the fire under control, though the flaring continued for most of the night.
The red glow caused by the flaring could be seen from 40 kilometers away, according to the fire department.
As MRC reported before, in early July 2014, a fire was triggered by an explosion at a Shell chemical plant in styrene monomer (SM)/propylene oxide (PO) plant (MSPO-2) at Moerdijk in the Netherlands. Two people suffered minor burns.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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