MOSCOW (MRC) -- A fire broke out on Friday evening at one of the units at Shell's Pulau Bukom refining and petrochemical complex in Singapore, leading to burn injuries for six contract workers, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing.
All six workers were sent to the hospital, and two were discharged in short order after receiving outpatient treatment, Shell said in a statement.
Meanwhile, three victims are in critical condition, according to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and another is in stable condition.
"We are following the progress and treatment of the other workers closely and are working with our contractors to ensure all possible support and assistance are rendered to the injured workers and their families," said a Shell spokesperson. "All other personnel are accounted for at the site."
Shell said the fire was put out by the site's first emergency responders within an hour, and there was no other opational impact on Pulau Bukom.
"We are working with the Singapore Civil Defence Force to investigate the incident," the company said in its statement.
We remind that, as MRC wrote previously, on 11 May 2015, a fire broke out at Shell's refining and petrochemical complex in Wesseling, Germany. Nobody was injured. The fire was extinguished at 9:11 p.m. Local media reports said the fire had broken out in the olefins cracking unit. The Wesseling cracker has capacity to produce 260,000 tpy of ethylene, according to news reports, while the refinery can process 141,000 bpd.
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