Refinery
Cardón refinery — licensed-refinery process fire
22 March 2024
Punta Cardón, Falcón, Venezuela
What happened
A gasoline leak ignited following an explosion at Venezuela's Cardón refinery around 5am, with the fire spreading to a power substation and forcing three in-service crude-distillation units offline. Two workers were injured, one with burns to an arm and one with burns to hair and face; the fire was extinguished within a couple of hours. This was an accidental incident at a licensed industrial refinery, not an attack.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- 11.6200°
- Longitude
- -70.2200°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
