JAKARTA – Indonesian state oil company Pertamina shuts its Balongan oil refinery in West Java as it battles to control a massive fire that broke out overnight.
Five people were injured and 950 residents evacuated.
Local media reported that the fire started after midnight while Pertamina said in a statement on Monday that the fire broke out during bad weather.
Pertamina spokesman Ifki Sukarya said five people were treated in hospital for burns, adding that some were passing near the refinery when the fire broke out.
No Pertamina staff was hurt, he said.
The fire was concentrated in the refinery’s storage units, and there had been no impact on the processing plant.
Balongan, one of Pertamina’s biggest refineries, processes crude oil from the Duri and Minas fields in Riau province and supplies fuel to Jakarta and the western regions of Java Island.(Reuters)
