South Africa’s second-largest crude oil refinery, the Engen plant in Durban, has been shut down to allow investigators a chance to find out the cause of a “fire incident” earlier on Friday, Engen said. Slideshow ( 4 images ) Engen, which operates the 120,000 barrel per day plant and is majority-owned by Malaysia’s Petronas, said a fire broke out at around 0510 GMT and was extinguished by 0645 GMT. “Engen is currently assessing its overall bulk fuels supply and demand position and implementing immediate mitigations to manage inventory and product supply requirements,” Engen said in an update. Local emergency services said seven people were injured, although Engen said no injuries were recorded and all refinery personnel were accounted for. “I saw a massive fireball at the centre of the refinery with thick black smoke billowing from it,” Durban resident Shane Lloyd Pretorius told Reuters. Engen […]