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Riyadh: State oil firm Saudi Aramco said yesterday four people died at a fire which did not affect crude and oil product exports from the world's largest offshore oil export facility.
A statement said two Filipinos, an Indian and a Sri Lankan died in the incident at Ras Tanura, all workers with a maintenance firm used at the site.
Twelve were injured, including one Saudi official from Aramco and 11 workers from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It said the fire was brought under control within an hour after it erupted on Thursday morning.
"There is no disruption to any of Saudi Aramco operations after the fire, including exports of crude and oil products," an Aramco spokesman said yesterday. Exports from the Ras Tanura terminal were continuing from other berths, he said.
Production unaffected
"We have a lot of redundancies built into all of our operations, and this is no exception," the spokesman said. "We have more than one berth from which we can load naphtha and other oil products."
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter. Ras Tanura has capacity to load between 5.5 million and 6 million barrels per day of oil. A shipping source said earlier that berth number 10 at the port was closed after the fire. The fire early on Thursday took place on a berth that was undergoing maintenance.
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