MOSCOW (MRC) -- Saudi Aramco said last Thursday that two workers died of injuries sustained in a fire that broke out at its Wasea crude oil plant in central Saudi Arabia, reported Reuters.
The state oil firm said late on Wednesday that the blaze was put out and did not affect operations.
"We sadly announce the tragic loss of two workers and 16 injured from a fire" at the plant, it said on Thursday on its official twitter page.
It gave no further details about the victims.
In September, a fire ripped through Aramco’s Gulf coast Ras Tanura oil terminal, injuring eight workers.
As MRC informed before, in June 2016, Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. announced to be one step closer to building their first plant to process crude directly into chemicals, cutting out a link in the production chain from hydrocarbons to the finished products that go into plastics and other consumer goods.
The state-owned companies signed an agreement to study such a project to be located in Saudi Arabia. A joint venture is possible if the companies decide to move ahead after the study is completed by early 2017, they said. The companies could "substantially" increase Saudi Arabia’s production of petrochemicals, while enabling them to boost commodity exports and spur industrial diversification, Amin Nasser, chief executive officer of the oil producer known as Saudi Aramco, said in the statement. It could also add more chemical products to the domestic market, he said at the signing ceremony.
Saudi Aramco and Sabic, the third-biggest petrochemical maker in the world by sales, are planning to build the refinery in Yanbu on the Red Sea coast, two people with knowledge of the plans said in April, asking not to be identified because the project was confidential. Saudi Aramco and Sabic had been working separately on projects to produce chemicals straight from oil without the need to operate separate facilities, the people said.
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