Fire breaks out at refinery in China: Xinhua

Fire breaks out at refinery in China: Xinhua
by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Aug 29, 2011

A fire has engulfed a refinery belonging to state-owned oil giant PetroChina in northeast China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

The blaze broke out at PetroChina's Dalian refinery at around 10:00 am (0200 GMT), Xinhua reported in a short dispatch, giving no details of any casualties.

Photographs on local news websites showed the refinery in flames and Xinhua quoted local people as saying the air was filled with smoke and traffic was blocked as fire engines rushed to the scene.

Telephone calls to the plant and to local authorities went unanswered.

The fire comes after more than 30 people were injured when an explosion ripped through a PetroChina oil refinery in neighbouring Fushun city in January.

Buy Advertising

Editorial Enquiries

Comment on this article via your Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail login.

Share this article via these popular social media networks

del.icio.us

Digg

Google

Southern South American wildfires expected to increase
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 24, 2011
A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in the southern half of South America. The research team used tree rings dating to 1506 to track past wildfire activity in the forests of Patagonia tied to the Southern Annular Mode, or ... read more

Irrigation impacts on global carbon uptake

No Nutritional Difference between Free-Range and Cage-Produced Eggs

NASA refutes drought-driven declines in plant productivity, global food security

New genome sequence could improve important agricultural crops

Flexible electronics hold promise for consumer applications

New nanoscale parameter by Aalto University resolves dilemmas on silicon property

Berkeley Lab scientists unveil an X-ray technique called HARPES

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

Air New Zealand earnings plunge after disasters

Air disaster narrowly averted in China: report

Philippine Airlines lays off ground staff

U.S., Russian firms in distribution deal

Germany gets 1st EV fast-charging station

Can electric cars win over the mass market?

China's SAIC Motor first-half net profit up 46%

China's BYD to raise up to $939 mn in bond sale

CouchSurfing links travelers and like-minded locals

Norway eyes first ministerial visit to China since Nobel

Bank of America to sell shares in China's CCB

Bank of America to sell shares in China's CCB

Argentina, Uruguay end pulp mill row

Reforestation and Lions in Greece

Cambodian 'Avatars' rally to save forest

Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil

Google plots Hurricane Irene with online map

NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas

Elbit To Supply Asian Countries with Electro-Optical Payloads for Maritime Applications

TRMM gets a look at Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season

Miner Xstrata faces climate test case in Australiaq

Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space

Has Graphene Been Detected in Space

Pioneers get close-up view of miracle material graphene

Memory Foam Mattress Review

SPACE MEDIA NETWORK PROMOTIONS
Solar Energy Solutions :: Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison

Newsletters :: SpaceDaily Express :: SpaceWar Express :: TerraDaily Express :: Energy Daily
XML Feeds :: Space News :: Earth News :: War News :: Solar Energy News

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2011 - Space Media Network. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement