LNG Facility
Sinopec Beihai LNG terminal
2 November 2020 · Time not stated
Tieshan Port, Beihai, Guangxi, China
What happened
LNG escaped from an opened low-pressure export header while workers were conducting hot work on the second-phase expansion project and the resulting vapor cloud ignited. Seven people were killed and two seriously injured. China’s Ministry of Emergency Management attributed the release to an isolation valve being left open and recorded direct economic losses of approximately 20.29 million yuan.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- LNG Facility
- Latitude
- 21.4600°
- Longitude
- 109.5700°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.