1 dead and 9 injured!

At around 20:52 local time on May 19, 2022, a massive explosion occurred at the S-Oil (Ssangyong) refinery in Ulsan, southeastern South Korea, killing one person and injuring nine othe.

After the accident, the local fire department and other departments rushed to the scene as soon as possib.

Firefighters arrived at the scene and quickly put out the resc.

The situation at the scene is very critic.

According to local residents, the impact of the explosion was very strong and spread to surrounding hous.

After the explosion, some debris fell from the sky near the sce.

Twelve hours after the explosion, the fire has not been fully extinguish.

According to the data, South Korea S-oil was established in 1976, listed on the Korea Stock Exchange in 1987, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Kor.

It is reported that it has a crude oil refining unit in the Ulsan Aung San Industrial Complex, with a daily output of 669,000 barrels, and also produces lubricating base oil (44,700 barrels per day) and other petrochemical produc.

At present, according to some sources in South Korea, the ignition site is the gasoline alkylation unit, which has not affected the reforming and other uni.

It can be seen that the explosion of the refinery will have two consequences, one is to create panic in the local ar.

The second is the problem of supply and demand, not to mention whether the accident will bring shocks to oil prices, but it will also make the market that is already in short supply more seve.

The accident to South Korea's S-oil not only affected the supply of fuel to the refinery, but also caused financial and other loss.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the petrochemical industry, while condensing new high-tech achievements, it also brings new safety issu.

Refinery Fire and Explosion Safety Instructions

All equipment and pipeline systems of flammable and explosive materials should be purged with inert gas, such as steam and nitrogen, and it is forbidden to purge with a.

The high temperature hot oil is strictly prohibited to be discharg.

It is forbidden to discharge flammable liquids into the sew.

If it needs to be discharged, there should be recycling or treatment measur.

Strengthen the management of open flames, and strictly prohibit illegal operatio.

If you need to use fire and use sand turbines, cutting machines, electric drills, e.

to generate open flames, you must go through the fire procedures according to regulatio.

When entering the flammable and explosive area, you must wear anti-static clothing to prevent static fire and explosion acciden.

It is strictly forbidden to discharge flammable gas or liquid in the area with open flame operati.

When using substances that can cause combustion or explosion in contact with water, water vapor or oxidation in the air, nitrogen extinguishing measures should be tak.

Strictly implement the "Top Ten Prohibitions on Fire and Explosio.

When the production must be hot, the detailed rules of hot management system shall be implement.