IOC lubricant-filling depot catches fire
New Delhi   19-Jan-2011

A fire broke out at a lubricant-filling depot of state-run IndianOil (IOC) at Taloja outside Mumbai in the early hours of Tuesday, but was contained within hours.

“No one was injured in the fire,“ IOC chairman B.M. Bansal told a new conference in New Delhi. The depot stored lube oil for packaging into containers, but had no stocks of crude oil.

A fire brigade official in Mumbai said the blaze began from containers containing lubricant oil. “Thousands of drums with 200 litres capacity each, stored in the godown caught fire and destroyed around 40,000 litres of lubricant oil“, the official said.