Sonatrach issued the following announcement on Oct. 22.
The fire started on Wednesday evening at the furnace of the 2nd train of the El Merk processing center managed by the Berkine Group was “quickly brought under control”, without causing human or environmental damage, SONATRACH reported on Thursday in a report. communicated.
“A fire broke out on October 21, 2020 at around 8:20 p.m. at the furnace of the 2nd train of the El Merk field treatment center” under the Berkine Group, said the National Hydrocarbons Company.
According to the same source, this fire was dealt with “quickly” by the site’s intervention teams who secured the indicated area before extinguishing the fire in the furnace with the site’s intervention resources..
“As part of the mutual assistance protocol, joint intervention teams from HBNS and Ourhoud were dispatched to reinforce those of El Merk, which made it possible to control the situation and put out the fire while cooling the furnace and the adjacent installations in order to avoid any risk of re-fire ”, explains the SONATRACH Group.
In this context, the Group ensured “the mobilization and responsiveness of the operational and fire-fighting teams made it possible to control this incident which did not cause human damage or harm the site environment. ”. (APS)
Original source: https://sonatrach.com/actualites/sonatrach-lincendie-declenche-au-niveau-du-four-du-2eme-train-rapidement-maitriseaps
