Scores Evacuated in Fire at Indonesia’s Largest Oil Refinery

Scores Evacuated in Fire at Indonesia’s Largest Oil Refinery
The sky glows from the fire that razes through an oil refinery owned by the national oil company Pertamina in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia, on Nov. 13, 2021. Agus Fitrah/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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JAKARTA, Indonesia—A fire at a gasoline storage at the largest oil refinery on Indonesia’s Java island near Jakarta on Saturday prompted the evacuation of at least 80 residents living nearby, the national oil company Pertamina said.

Pertamina, Indonesia’s biggest state-owned enterprise and energy company, said the fire at the Cilacap refinery started at one of the 228 gasoline tanks used to accommodate crude at 7:20 p.m.