Fire at St. Croix refinery under control, firefighter injured -media

(Reuters) – A fireplace broke out round 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) on Sunday at Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation’s shuttered refinery in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, leaving one firefighter with a minor burn, native media reported.

The hearth broke out on the refinery inside the petroleum coke conveyor loading system situated exterior and above the coke storage dome and is below management, the stories said , citing the corporate.

The refinery had been making an attempt since Aug. 4 to extinguish smoldering petroleum coke at its coke storage dome that was left over from the transient operation of its coker unit in 2021, the stories mentioned.

(Reporting by Deep Vakil in Bengaluru; Modifying by Toby Chopra)