Three powerful blasts triggered a fire at at the gas terminal plant of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in Hazira in Surat, early on Thursday. No casualties was reported in the fire that started around 3 am was brought under control by 7 am.
Surat District Collector Dhaval Patel said, “The fire broke out in the inlet gas terminal after three massive blasts at 3.05 am. The compressed gas was depressurised to bring the fire under control… no one was injured.”
According to ONGC sources in Hazira, natural gas from Mumbai high sea offshore is transported to the plant through two pipe-lines of diameter 36 inches and 42 inches respectively, through a 240-kilometre network.
