Petroplus Holdings AG (SWX:PPHN) today announced that an incident
occurred at its Coryton refinery. At approximately 11:30 am Greenwich
Mean Time, a fire occurred at one of the refinery units. Refinery and
local emergency response teams responded to the incident and the
situation is now under control. As a precaution, several processing
units were shutdown. There are no reported injuries or offsite
environmental impacts associated with this incident.
Petroplus Holdings AG is the largest independent refiner and
wholesaler of petroleum products in Europe. Petroplus focuses on
refining and currently owns and operates five refineries across
Europe: the Coryton refinery on the Thames Estuary in the United
Kingdom, the Ingolstadt refinery in Ingolstadt, Germany, the Belgium
Refining Company refinery in Antwerp, Belgium, the Cressier refinery
in the canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and the Teesside refinery in
Teesside, United Kingdom. The refineries have a combined throughput
capacity of approximately 625,000 bpd.
