MOSCOW (MRC) -- Twelve contract workers were hurt on Wednesday morning when a fire broke out at a unit undergoing repairs at Exxon Mobil Corp's Beaumont, Texas, refinery, reported Chicago Tribune News with reference to a company spokeswoman.
Exxon Mobil did not identify the unit but confirmed the fire broke out at 10:30 a.m. CDT (11.30 a.m. EDT) on a shut unit undergoing planned maintenance work at the refinery. The blaze was quickly brought under control and extinguished, said company spokeswoman Rachael Moore.
Six of the 12 workers were taken to regional hospitals "for further medical evaluation and treatment," Moore said.
The cause of the fire has yet to be disclosed.
The ExxonMobil Beaumont site is one of the larger refineries in the US, with a capacity of 344,500 bpd.
We remind that, as MRC informed previously, on 5, Oct, ExxonMobil Corp. confined a fire that broke out at its Baytown, Texas refinery to a process unit. The complex has a 584,000 bbl/day refinery and two chemical plants that make butyl rubber and polypropylene (PP), making it the largest operating refinery in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world.
ExxonMobil is the largest non-government owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3 percent of the world's oil and about 2 percent of the world's energy.
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