Incident Report

Subject:      Two dead, two hurt in Spain refinery fire -Cepsa               

Date of Email report:   Fri 06/08/2010

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Two people died and another was injured in a fire on Wednesday at the Huelva refinery in Spain run by oil firm Cepsa a company official said. The official was unable to say whether production had been affected at the refinery in southeast Spain, which normally processes about 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day. "The fire broke out on the production line into a tank. Plant and local firemen are working to put out the fire," he said by telephone, adding the fire had since been extinguished. Television pictures earlier showed plumes of smoke rising from the refinery and a worker being taken on board a helicopter on a stretcher. "Cepsa expresses its deepest sympathy to the victims' families and is at their and the authorities' service in order to explain the events," the company said in a statement. Cepsa owns three of Spain's 10 oil refineries. (Reuters)

UPDATE 3-Two dead, two hurt in Spain refinery fire -Cepsa

(Updates death toll, fire extinguished)

MADRID Aug 4 (Reuters) - Two people died and another was injured in a fire on Wednesday at the Huelva refinery in Spain run by oil firm Cepsa CEP.MC, a company official said.

The official was unable to say whether production had been affected at the refinery in southeast Spain, which normally processes about 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day.

"The fire broke out on the production line into a tank. Plant and local firemen are working to put out the fire," he said by telephone, adding the fire had since been extinguished.

Television pictures earlier showed plumes of smoke rising from the refinery and a worker being taken on board a helicopter on a stretcher.

"Cepsa expresses its deepest sympathy to the victims' families and is at their and the authorities' service in order to explain the events," the company said in a statement.

Cepsa owns three of Spain's 10 oil refineries. (Reporting by Martin Roberts and Carlos Ruano; editing by James Jukwey)

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