The fire started during maintenance work when an inactive pipe was removed and struck another pipe containing the chemical naphtha, a gasoline component, which ignited after being released from the ...

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has delayed naphtha shipments for April after a fire at its 146,300 barrels-per-day Nasr refinery in Suez last Saturday, two company officials said on ...

Francisco Mendes, station fire officer, said, "If a fire breaks out in the middle of the market then access to the tenders is virtually impossible there, therefore, hydrants are extremely helpful in ...

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp, Asia's top naphtha importer, sold cargoes of heavy naphtha because of surplus of the fuel after a fire at a neighbouring ...

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The three boys from Dhaktollem-Vasco, who were victims of the naphtha pipline inferno - Tejas Palyekar, Navin Berade and Pravin Kumar, are recovering in a Mumbai hospital, said revenue minister Jose ...

HOUSTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said on Wednesday that leaking volatile naphtha, possibly due to open valves and a running pump, set off a massive fire at Mitsui & Co ...

SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp <6505.TW> shut a 700,000 tonne-per-year (tpy) naphtha cracker at its petrochemical complex after a fire on Wednesday, its spokesman ...

Asian naphtha participants are bracing for buying sentiment to turn bearish as the market absorbs news of the pipeline fire at Formosa Petrochemical's Mailiao refinery late Tuesday, trading sources ...

A boiling fire erupted today when lightning struck a large storage tank a Kinder Morgan Energy Partners' terminal in Pasadena. The tank, filled with 170,000 barrels of naphtha used as a blending agent ...