At the time of the incident, the Italy-flagged tanker Syn Zania was anchored at the Petkim petrochemical plant operated by the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR, media outlets cited Aliaga province’s sub-Governor Erhan Gunay as saying.
He added that a Petkim worker was also hospitalized due to injuries sustained following the explosion, that occurred in the evening hours of June 1 at Petkim Pier 5.
In a statement on the matter, Petkim said that a fire “broke out due to an unspecified reason during the connection to the Italian flagged Syn Zania for the filling of liquid hydrocarbons.”
The fire was soon extinguished and teams at the site continued cooling works.
Relevant authorities launched an investigation into the incident, while SOCAR informed that the operations at the petrochemical plant in Turkey’s western Izmir province continued.
據報導，在土耳其Aliaga港的LNG油輪爆炸中，有一名船員死亡，另有15人受傷。
事件發生時，義大利國旗油輪Syn Zania停泊在由阿塞拜疆國家石油公司SOCAR運營的Petkim石化廠，媒體機構援引Aliaga省副省長Erhan Gunay的話說。
他補充說，一名Petkim工作人員因6月1日晚上在Petkim Pier 5發生爆炸後受傷而住院。
Petkim在一份關於此事的聲明中表示，在與義大利旗下的Syn Zania連接液體碳氫化合物的過程中，由於一個未明確的原因引發了火災。
大火很快就消失了，現場的團隊繼續冷卻工作。
有關當局對此事件進行了調查，而SOCAR則通知土耳其伊茲密爾省西部石化廠的業務仍在繼續。
Imformation source: World Maritime News Staff , Image Courtesy: Daily Sabah
