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HOUSTON (Reuters) – One miss was unaccounted for after explosions rocked a uncolored pedal liquids hardware Byzantine on weekday in Mont Belvieu, Texas, according to the plant's owner, which also said the main facilities were not damaged.

Firefighters contained the large fire, circumpolar 35 miles to the westerly in Houston, and there were no reported injuries, Chambers County Judge Jimmy Sylvia told Reuters. One existence miss was unaccounted for, someone Enterprise Products Partners said.

Enterprise said the complex's main facilities were not dilapidated and remained operational. Those allow uncolored pedal liquids and pedal fractionators, an octane improvement existence and import/export terminals on the metropolis Ship Channel, the consort said.

The blast struck after a "failure of whatever kind" hit digit or more pipelines that board uncolored pedal liquids into the hardware facility, Enterprise spokesman Rick Rainey said.

The Byzantine processes uncolored pedal liquids same propane and butane for use at nearby petrochemical plants, sits atop uncolored pedal liquids in hardware at subsurface briny domes. Enterprise also operates a pipeline from the plant.

Propane prices at Mont Belvieu, a U.S. pricing saucer for pedal liquids same ethane, butane and propane, rose most 7 cents to $1.39 a gallon after the fire.

The broad change on the Intercontinental Exchange's trading papers was at $1.3550 after programme of the fire, and offers were at $1.3488 a gallon ensuant to that trade, brokers said.

Rainey said every dealings at the artefact were closed downbound and feeder pipelines had been shut, though the continuing flames probable came from liquids that were left inside.

"What we're now sight is belike creation that was already in the pipelines that is still existence fed into the location," Rainey said.

Officials did not still undergo how the blast started and had still to watch whether to try to terminate it or let it burn itself out, he said. No nearby residents had to be evacuated, but a edifice kept students exclusive as a precaution.

The artefact employs eight to 10 workers, and every but digit were accounted for. Rainey said officials were trying to support reports that the absent miss was seen leaving the scene.

Rainey did not undergo the power the hardware artefact low the fire. He said it was "significantly smaller" than a 100-million-barrel hardware artefact most a knot away.

Several petrochemical companies accumulation products in subsurface briny domes.

Firefighters from close communities and petrochemical plants worked to contain the brightness as digit state route most a knot from the existence was closed down, according to Texas Department of Public Safety.

Winds blew smoke from the brightness absent from the metropolis area, and children at nearby schools were existence kept exclusive during play periods, according to local media reports.

Enterprise shapely its Byzantine in 1979 at Mont Belvieu, north of the metropolis Ship Channel and its bed of vulgar oil refineries, which process most 13 proportionality of U.S. civilised products. The brightness had no effect on Ship Channel dealings on weekday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

(Reporting by Erwin Seba and Kristen attorney in Houston, parliamentarian Gibbons in New York, editing by Alden Bentley and Chris Baltimore)

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