Four die in India refinery fire

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Four people were killed and 18 others injured after an oil refinery caught fire in western India, officials said.

The fire broke out in the Essar refinery in Jamnagar district of Gujarat when workers were carrying out welding work near a pipeline.

Officials say the fire started from a leakage in a naphtha pipeline. The Essar Group is one of India's largest corporate houses with interests in manufacturing and service sectors, including oil, gas, power and telecom.

"The fire was quickly brought under control. There is absolutely no impact on the refinery," a spokesman for the refinery told the Reuters news agency.

The refinery was commissioned last year, and was producing 150,000 barrels a day, reports said.

Fires in the oil industry are not uncommon in India.

One worker died and another person was injured in a fire at India's largest refinery, owned by Reliance Industries, in Jamnagar last year.

At least 10 people died in a fire in an oil platform fire off the western coast of India in 2005.

The platform in India's most important Bombay High oil field, run by the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), was completely destroyed in the fire.