LNG

Nov 3 (LNGJ) - The Chinese authorities have confirmed that five people died, three were injured and one person was still missing after a fire broke out at an LNG import terminal expansion project in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The accident took place on November 2 in the LNG terminal in Tieshan Port, operated by China Oil and Gas Piping Network Corp. (PipeChina), which recently took over ownership of the facility from Chinese major Sinopec.

   “The fire has been extinguished and an investigation is going on to ascertain the cause of the accident,” said the official Xinhua news agency. The report explained that the fire broke out in the petrochemical operational area of ​​the port near an LNG storage tank.