May 20 (Reuters) – One person was killed and nine others injured in an explosion overnight on Friday at an S-Oil Ulsan group refinery in South Korea, a fire department official said.
S-Oil said in a regulatory document that it had stopped production of one of its alkylation units at its refinery in Onsan, Ulsan, due to a fire.
According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the fire broke out while workers were carrying out a maintenance procedure in one of the alkylation units. (Report Arpan Varghese, Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang; French version Camille Raynaud)