Operational failure
Oil Refinery
MRPL Mangalore refinery — separator rupture and fire
30 September 2026 · About 12:20 p.m. local time
Jokatte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
Map
12.9690, 74.8440
What happened
A high-pressure cold separator ruptured in the Coker Hydrotreater Unit at Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd's refinery, triggering a fire. MRPL said emergency teams isolated the unit and extinguished the fire by 2:47 p.m.; the remainder of the refinery continued operating normally. One contractor was killed. Contemporary reports differed on whether eight or nine people were injured, so the casualty total remains provisional. Reuters reported that MRPL cancelled export tenders for diesel, jet fuel and reformate after the incident. The reviewed sources did not attribute the rupture to hostile action or establish a refinery-wide shutdown.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Oil Refinery
- Current temperature
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- Latitude
- 12.9690°
- Longitude
- 74.8440°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.
Sources
- India's MRPL cancels fuel export tenders after fire at refineryBusiness Standard, citing Reuters and MRPL · Incident reporting
- MRPL fire: One killed, nine injured after high-pressure separator rupturesUnited News of India, citing MRPL · Documents the equipment rupture, unit isolation, extinguishment time and later casualty count.
- MRPL refinery fire at coker-adjacent plant kills one, injures anotherOil & Gas Journal, citing MRPL regulatory filings · Corroborates the separator rupture, fatality and refinery capacity from company filings.