State-owned Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA) has confirmed it safely contained and extinguished a fire at its gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay, with no sustained injuries having been reported.
The fire broke out at about 18:00 on March 14, and the PetroSA team, together with the Mossel Bay and Garden Route fire authorities, managed to extinguish the fire by 23:15.