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Jakarta –
The fire at the Balongan refinery, Indramayu, West Java, caused a commotion. This is because the incident evacuated hundreds of residents who live around the refinery.
So what caused the fire at the oil refinery owned by PT Pertamina (Persero)? Pertamina President Commissioner Basuki Tjahaja Purnama also opened his voice.
“The truth is that the tank has a leak,” said the man known as Ahok. CNNIndonesia.com, Friday (2/4/2021).
However, there are still unsolved riddles regarding the tank leak.
“What hasn’t been answered is why security leaked late,” Ahok said.
Although he did not elaborate further, Ahok ensured that Pertamina and the police would continue to investigate the cause of the leak at the Balongan refinery.
For information, the fire at the Balongan Refinery occurred in tank T-301G of the Refinery Unit (UK) VI of PT Pertamina (Persero). Citing Pertamina’s website, RU VI Balongan is the sixth of seven refineries owned by PT Pertamina (Persero). The RU VI Balongan refinery has been operating since 1994. RU has a vision to become the leading refinery in Asia.
The main business of the RU VI Balongan refinery is the processing of crude oil (crude oil) into oil (fuel oil), non-fuel products and petrochemicals. The area of operation is in Balongan, Mundu and Salam Darma. The raw materials processed at the RU VI Balongan refinery are Duri y Minas crude oil that comes from Riau province.
According to the Pertamina website, as a relatively new refinery and applying the latest technology, Pertamina RU VI has a high economic value. With superior products such as Premium, Pertamax, Pertamax Plus, Solar, Pertamine DEX, Kerosene (Kerosene), LPG, Propylene.
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(hek / hns)
