Refinery
Marsden Point refinery — furnace tube fire
8 April 2017
Marsden Point, Northland, New Zealand
What happened
Crude oil leaked from a furnace tube and ignited beneath a furnace in Block A at New Zealand's Marsden Point oil refinery. The fire was extinguished within minutes according to a refinery spokesman, though ten fire crews from Whangarei, Ruakaka, Waipu and Portland responded as a precaution, with the last leaving about 10:30pm. No one was reported missing or seriously injured.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- -35.8600°
- Longitude
- 174.4700°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.