{"id":609242,"date":"2026-04-15T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:01:14","slug":"blaze-erupts-at-geelong-oil-refinery-ceasefire-extension-request-not-true-at-this-moment-says-white-house-pakistani-mediators-arrive-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609242\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaze erupts at Geelong oil refinery; Ceasefire extension request \u2018not true at this moment\u2019, says White House; Pakistani mediators arrive in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters have responded to a \u201csignificant\u201d fire at Viva Energy Group\u2019s Geelong refinery, according to local fire authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the damage was not immediately clear. The blaze was reported at around 11pm on Wednesday, Fire Rescue Victoria said in a statement, adding it was not yet under control, but all staff had been accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>The dispatch to the refinery in Corio in Victoria came after multiple calls reporting explosions and flames, it said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Footage of the Geelong oil refinery on fire. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b2110a5d35d9990849b390c8da34a0ed521587f6077aae3ec7047f0df2c7353d.gif\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Footage of the Geelong oil refinery on fire. Nine News<\/p>\n<p>The refinery can process up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day, according to the company\u2019s website. It is one of two refineries remaining in Australia and employs over 1100 people, supplying over 50 per cent of Victoria\u2019s and 10 per cent of Australia\u2019s fuel, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has faced fuel security \u200bconcerns since Iran all but closed the Strait of Hormuz after being attacked by the US and Israel. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said last month the government would halve the excise on \u200cfuel and diesel and remove the heavy road user charge for three months to help households cope with a surge in costs driven by the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have responded to a \u201csignificant\u201d fire at Viva Energy Group\u2019s Geelong refinery, according to local fire authorities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-609242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}