Six dead in an explosion at Orlen’s Czech unit plant

Six people died in an explosion at a storage tank at Kraluoy refinery owned by Unipetrol, a Czech unit of WSE-listed fuel group Orlen. “I can confirm that the event took place at the refinery of Unipetrol in Kralupy nad Vltavou. One of the storage tanks exploded without a subsequent fire in the Kralupy refinery,” Unipetrol spokesman Pavel Kaidl said, adding that the situation is under control and there was no leakage of any dangerous substances. The Kralupy refinery is one of two such facilities in Czechia, the other, in Litvinov is also owned by Unipetrol. Combined they can refine 8.7 million metric tons of crude oil.