Thick plumes of black smoke shot into the sky at the Balongan refinery in West Java, owned by state oil company Pertamina."Pertamina is focused on extinguishing fires at the two other tankers," it said in a statement.
The cause of the fire was not clear, but the company said the blaze broke out during a lightning storm.Six severely wounded people have been hospitalised in the capital Jakarta, about 200km from the sprawling plant, which opened in the mid-nineties and can refine around 125,000 barrels of oil a day.Pertamina has insisted the fire is not likely to cause fuel supply disruptions due to a high volume of stock.
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