A fire broke out at a Saudi oil refinery on Friday without causing casualties or a major disruption, the state oil monopoly Saudi Aramco said.
"Emergency teams on the site backed by civil defence workers managed to bring a minor fire under control at one of the refinery units after a leak from a furnace," it said.
Production at the refinery in the western region of Jeddah was "not seriously affected and the other units are functioning normally," Aramco said, quoted by the official news agency SPA.
In July 2000, a Saudi oil worker died of second-degree burns from a gas-leak fire at Ras Tannurah refinery in the east of the Gulf Arab kingdom, the world's top oil producer and exporter.—AFP.
©--Agence France Presse 2001.
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