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No injuries were
reported and no evacuations were under way, the Pascagoula
Police Department said.
The fire, which erupted after an explosion at about 11:30 p.m.
local time, was under control, police said.
The plant processes 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day
gathered from offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
A BP spokesman was not immediately available to comment on
operations at the plant, which a company website describes as
among the 10 largest such facilities in the United States.
It handles half of BP's natural gas production from the Gulf.
Several social media messages from Pascagoula residents said the
blaze had erupted at Chevron Corp's 330,000 bpd refinery in
Pascagoula. The police department said the fire was not at the
Chevron refinery.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba in Houston and Brendan O'Brien in
Milwaukee, Apeksha Nair and Eileen Soreng in Bengaluru; editing
by Simon Cameron-Moore and Jason Neely)
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