Refinery
Petrobras Paulínia Refinery — sour-water tank explosion
20 August 2018 · Time not stated
Paulínia, São Paulo, Brazil
What happened
An explosion followed by fire occurred in a sour-water storage tank at Petrobras’s Paulínia Refinery, known as Replan. Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels conducted a formal incident investigation. The marker identifies the refinery; detailed consequences and findings remain in the linked ANP investigation material.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- -22.7300°
- Longitude
- -47.1400°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.