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Blast at Indian Oil Corporation’s Gujarat refinery in Vadodara

An explosion occurred at Indian Oil Corporation's Gujarat refinery in Vadodara on Monday. Details of the incident are still unavailable. This incident follows a series of previous incidents at the refinery, including a major blast in the FCC plant two decades ago and a fire in pipelines connected to the FCC unit in 2005.

NEW DELHI: A blast occurred at Indian Oil Corporation ’s Gujarat Refinery in Vadodara on Monday. No casualty has been reported so far. Vadodara district collector Bijal Shah said that the blast occurred at around 3.

50pm. This comes nearly two decades after a major blast rocked the Indian Oil Corporation's Gujarat Refinery leaving 13 injured. The explosion had occurred at the Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) plant at around, triggering a fire that took nearly four hours of firefighting efforts to bring under control.

In 2005, a major accident was narrowly avoided at the Gujarat Refinery when a fire broke out in the pipelines connected to the newly commissioned FCC unit. Later, in June 2010, another significant fire erupted in the GR plant's backyard in Karachiya village. While there were no casualties, an investigation uncovered that large quantities of bitumen had been illegally dumped on the site.

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