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CAPE TOWN, April 19 (Reuters) - A planned shutdown at SouthAfrica's largest refinery, the SAPREF plant co-owned by Shell and BP, will be brought forward to this weekafter a worker died in hospital following a flash fire, aspokeswoman said on Sunday.
The worker, one of three hospitalised after a pipeline fireerupted at the 172,000 barrel a day plant on Friday night,succumbed to his wounds on Sunday. Two others remain in a stablecondition, spokeswoman Cindy Govender said.
"In the wake of the incident the SAPREF refinery will bringforward a planned site shutdown to this week," she said in astatement, adding that investigations are under way to ascertainthe extent of the damage to infrastructure and the cause of thefire. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by David Goodman)
