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KUALA LUMPUR: A large explosion at a methanol plant owned by Malaysian national energy firm Petronas forced it to suspend operations on Monday, state media reported.
About 100 workers were at the plant on Labuan in the eastern state of Sabah when the explosion occurred in the plant's natural gas flare tip at about noon, Bernama news agency said.
No one was injured and the situation was quickly brought under control.
"We will conduct a comprehensive investigation before operations can continue," the plant's production chief Mohamamd Kamis Abdul Manap said.
"We will identify if there was weakness in the safety aspect," he said of the plant which was built in 1984. - AFP/de
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