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 The EOG employees and two contract workers were cleaning the tank
at the time of the fire at about 2 p.m., said Houston-based EOG
Resources spokeswoman K Leonard.
"The tank stores natural gas, and was undergoing cleaning when the
explosion occurred," the Lincoln County Homeland Security &
Emergency Management said in a statement, adding that the fire at
the facility south of La Barge is under control.
Leonard, however, said it was a "flash fire": "We would not describe
it as an explosion."
Three of the men were taken to hospital for treatment and a fourth
was treated and released from an outpatient facility, Leonard said.
Leonard did not immediately respond to questions about the cause of
the fire or the extent of damage and disruption to operations.
An April explosion shut down a Williams Companies Inc natural
gas-processing plant about 40 miles south of La Barge, in Opal, that
was able to churn out about 2 percent of the daily U.S. gas supply,
and a nearby town was evacuated.
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EOG Resources is one of the largest independent crude oil and
natural gas companies in the United States, it says.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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