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Monday, January 30, 2017
The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Ghana’s sole refinery, was shut in after an explosion. The blast took place at a newly installed €5.8-million crude heating unit.
The explosion caused no casualties. The blast at the crude distillation unit is the latest problem to hit the refinery, which has for decades performed below its capacity of 45,000 barrels per day.
“It was a damper failure. It failed to open to allow heat to escape through the chimney and that led to the explosion,” a Reuters source was quoted as saying.
The blast destroyed the new heating unit.
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