Fire in Balongan refinery, Indonesia

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 23 September 2020
Sentinel-1 CSAR acquired on 28 February 2021
Sentinel-3 OLCI acquired on 29 March 2021
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Fire, smoke plume, emergency, atmosphere, pollution, oil and gas, Indonesia.
Fig. 1 - S3 OLCI (29.03.2021) - A dark plume comes from the fire that has spread in 4 tanks of Balongan refinery, Western Java, Indonesia.
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Fig. 2 - The complex has 72 tanks with total capacity of 1.35 million m3
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Fig. 3 - S2 (23.09.2020) - The refinery has a capacity of about 125 000 barrels a day.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (28.02.2021) - It had mostly avoided the flood that affected Java island in February.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by VisioTerra.
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