MOSCOW (MRC) -- A fire that broke out at Iran's Bu Ali Sina petrochemical refinery complex has been contained, the Iranian oil ministry said on its official website Shana on Thursday, reported Reuters.
The fire broke out at the complex in the southwest city of Bandar Mahshahr on Wednesday, but caused no fatalities, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"The fire was prevented from spreading to other units of the plant. It has been contained now," a local official from Iran's Khuzestan province told Shana.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, according to the oil ministry website.
As MRC informed previously, as of 2015, number of active Iranian Petrochemical complexes were 53, with total production capacity of 59 million metric ton, producing range of polymers, chemicals, aromatics & liquid gas, located mainly at Iranian south region, next to Persian Gulf, called Assaluyeh and Mahshahr Special Economic Zones.
At the moment, there are 67 developments projects in the country which are under construction, adding 61 million metric ton on total production and estimated to fully run till 2018.
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