California regulators will investigate if an explosion and fire at a Chevron Corp. oil refinery in El Segundo, Calif., violated process safety standards.
The fire late Oct. 18 at the refinery—the largest on the West Coast—was quickly extinguished, the company said.
Fire broke out at the facility about 10:30 p.m. Oct. 18, and was extinguished by 11:18 p.m., Chevron spokesman Braden Reddall said in an Oct. 19 email to Bloomberg Environment.
No one was injured in the incident.
The fire broke out in a distribution area next to storage tanks, but not “in proximity to any of the facility’s ...
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