Fire contained at Iran's Abadan refinery, one dead, SHANA says
It said operations were unaffected.
"According to initial technical probes, the cause of the fire was a leak in one of the pumps in Unit 70, and no evidence of sabotage or human intervention has been observed so far," Shana reported.
State television said firefighters from Abadan and nearby areas had responded.
Local new agencies earlier carried videos showing large flames and dark stacks of smoke rising from a segment of the refinery, Iran's oldest crude processing facility in the southwestern oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which is currently among one of the hottest places in the world. Temperatures are nearly 50 degrees Celsius (122°F).
The refinery, like almost all Iranian oil and gas processing plants, needs major works and renovation.
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