Fire erupts at German refinery’s crude unit

HOUSTON, Oct. 18—Bayernoil Raffineriegesellschaft MBH has extinguished a fire at its 10.3-million tonne/year dual-site refinery at Vohburg, Ingolstadt, and Neustadt, in Bavaria, Germany.

The fire, which broke out on Oct. 16 at 12:00 p.m. local time in the crude distillation plant of the operator’s 300-hectacre Neustadt an der Donau operations, was extinguished by the site’s internal fire brigade, Bayernoil said in a release.

While the incident resulted in injuries to a contractor on site who was transported to hospital in Ingolstadt by external rescue services, the fire posed no danger to surrounding residents, according to the operator.

Bayernoil confirmed it has notified all relevant authorities of the incident but did not reveal details regarding either the cause of the fire or the status of current operations at the Neustadt site.

Alongside Varo Energy GMBH’s 51.43% majority interest in the Bayernoil refinery—which supplies oil products to Bavaria and northern Austria—other shareholders include Rosneft Deutschland GMBH (28.57%), and Eni SPA subsidiary Enilive Deutschland GMBH (20%).