{"id":8951,"date":"2025-10-17T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/orange-flare-in-spore-night-sky-on-oct-15-due-to-flaring-at-jb-chemical-plant-nea\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:26:09","slug":"orange-flare-in-spore-night-sky-on-oct-15-due-to-flaring-at-jb-chemical-plant-nea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/orange-flare-in-spore-night-sky-on-oct-15-due-to-flaring-at-jb-chemical-plant-nea\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange flare in S’pore night sky on Oct 15 due to flaring at JB chemical plant: NEA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bright orange flare visible from parts of Singapore on the evening of Oct 15 was caused by flaring activities at a chemical plant in Pasir Gudang in eastern Johor Bahru.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post on Oct 17, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said the flaring was the result of recovery work following a power outage at one of Lotte Chemical Titan’s chemical plants.<\/p>\n

The power outage began at 4.13pm on Oct 15, Lotte Chemical Titan said in a Facebook post on Oct 16. It added that recovery works began at about 6pm, and were completed at about 9.30pm.<\/p>\n

Flaring is a common safety measure in petrochemical plants, and the products of combustion are mainly water vapour and carbon dioxide, NEA said.<\/p>\n

“Flaring is the controlled burning of excess hydrocarbon gases that cannot be recovered or recycled, during both planned and unplanned situations,” it explained.<\/p>\n

NEA added that the air quality at its nearby air monitoring stations – including at Punggol, in the north-east of Singapore and across the Johor Strait from Pasir Gudang – is within normal variations, and that it will continue to monitor the situation.<\/p>\n

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On Oct 15, some netizens in Singapore took to social media to share images and videos of the flares.<\/p>\n

In posts on Facebook group Cloudspotting & Skyspotting Singapore, users posted sightings from Punggol Northshore, and from even as far away as Choa Chu Kang.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Calista Wong for The Straits Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Orange flare in S’pore night sky on Oct 15 due to flaring at JB chemical plant: NEA<\/div>\n

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A bright orange flare visible from parts of Singapore on the evening of Oct 15 was caused by flaring activities at a chemical plant in Pasir Gudang in eastern Johor Bahru. In a Facebook post on Oct 17, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said the flaring was the result of recovery work following a power…<\/p>\n

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