ORLA, Texas (AP) — Company officials say two people have been slightly hurt in a fire at natural gas processing plant in West Texas, near the New Mexico border.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation says the accident happened Thursday morning at the Ramsey plant near Orla
No cause was immediately released for the fire at the plant owned by Western Gas Partners and operated by Anadarko, based in The Woodlands.
Anadarko spokesman John Christiansen says the estimated 200 people at the plant are accounted for, with two suffering minor injuries. Christiansen says gas lines in and out of the unit have been isolated. The fire has been contained to one area of the plant.
The site is a rural area near U.S. 285, about 5 miles south of the Texas-New Mexico border. Traffic was being rerouted.