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January 2013 for starting construction prior to an approval. In May 2013, it had requested that the National Development and Reform Commission, in charge of economic planning, stop the project. Until the plant opened in 2013, China had imported 53% of its paraxylene. On July 30, 2013, before its start up, a "small blast" occurred at the Gulei plant, when its 3.2-million-tpy hydrocracker unit was tested and a hydrogen pipeline leaked. This incident delayed start-up by one week. No casualties or toxic leaks were reported at that time.
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called the massive fire an "inferno", and that chemical defense corps members of the army fought amongst the firefighters. It quoted Wen
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wrote that an oil spill had caused the fire burning in three massive storage tanks, injured 14 people, six of them severely enough to go to hospital, four of them were firefighters. It reported that, on April 7, 350 police and more than 600 firefighters were at the scene, and that more than 400
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As of 2015, the plant included two PX production lines and a benzene unit, each with a capacity to produce 800,000 tpy of paraxylene per unit (and 1.6 million tpy total) and 240,000 tpy of benzene, which was twice the PX (800,000 tpy) and about 5% more of the benzene (228,000 tpy) that had been
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said that there were no reports of leakage into groundwater, that the 16 PX plants had a production capacity of 10 million tons per year and that Dragon
Aromatics was only 8% of China’s PX production. Lin Boqiang, a US-trained energy economist at
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soldiers were deployed, forcing evacuations of residents within a vicinity of 18 km. Officials had said that fires had been put out at 4:40pm, yet 3 hours later the fire restarted. BBC reported on 8 April 2015, citing
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province, and received a license to build a petrochemical complex producing PX there. This was surprising given that "Chen's other plants in Xiamen had already been cited for repeated emissions
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