Huge Fire at IOC Depot Jaipur India - October 29, 2009

- Aasif Vindhani, QP Refinery, Qatar
How It Started!
The fire broke out when petrol was being transferred from the depot to a pipeline and soon got out of control. A leak in the pipeline is suspected to have caused the blaze.

6:45 p.m. A leak was detected in IOC depot in Jaipur.
For the next 40 minutes engineers tried to repair it.
7:30 p.m. The first container expolded, causing a blast of equivalent to a mild earthquake measuring 2.3 Richter scale.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22505247/IOC-Fire-Incident