(Merges two stories, adds details from Shell statement, policecomment)
LONDON/FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A fire at a chemicaltank at Shell's 195,000 barrel per day Rheinlandrefinery in Godorf, Cologne in Germany was put out at 1515 GMTon Thursday, just over an hour after it started, the companysaid.
"The plant's and the external fire brigades and the policeare present and extinguished the fire," it said, adding that itsinitial assessments found no sign that dangerous substances hadbeen emitted.
In an earlier statement, Shell said that a tank of toluene,a solvent and a feedstock for the manufacture of otherpetrochemicals, had caught fire.
Dark smoke hung over the plant, and local residents wereasked to close doors and windows and stay indoors.
A police spokesman said no one was injured.
An accident at the same site injured two people inNovember. (Reporting by Julia Payne, Ron Bousso, Vera Eckert and MatthiasInverardi; editing by David Evans and Jane Baird)
