The second unit of the Dumai oil refinery on Jalan Putri Tujuh, Dumai, Riau province, caught fire on Wednesday, ANTARA reported. The fire began at 11.45 a.m. local time. It was successfully put out at 12.30 a.m. after four units of fire trucks were sent to the location. Two ambulances were also sent to the location but there was no immediate report on human casualties. Spokesman of state-owned oil company Pertamina for Dumai, Hendra Nasution said that the fire followed an explosion at a pipe-line network used to channel crude to accommodating tanks. He said that an oil processing tanker of the Dumai refinery plant also caught fire on December 15, 2008, causing a loss of Rp10 billion to Pertamina.
