​The situation in Chempark Záluží after Thursday´s emergency situation is stable, all risks resulting from the damaged places are excluded. The road 1/27 between Most and Litvínov was re-opened today at midnight. There starts to operate the investigative team of Police of the Czech Republic and Firefighting department at the site today. The actual takings of samples regarding the possible occurrence of pollutants in the air did not show increased values.

"First of all, I would like to thank all components of the integrated rescue system for their professional and devoted intervention that made it able to handle the situation quickly and without major impacts on human health and the environment," says CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Unipetrol Marek Świtajewski. "People and safety are for Unipetrol group the most important corporate values. We will closely analyse the causes of the emergency situation but in particular the possibilities on how to prevent from such situation and how to increase the safety even higher," adds Marek Świtajewski.

The situation at the site is in the long term without any risks. The Crisis Committee decided on putting the tram into service this evening. The company reverts back to normal operating mode and all employees will come back to work tomorrow.  Tomorrow morning, there will be organized last meeting of the Crisis Committee.

There is ongoing investigation carried out by a special team of the Police of the Czech Republic and Firefighting department in place of the accident. As soon as the work of the investigation team will finish, our specialists will get to the place to map out the factual extent of the damages and plan the necessary repairs or the time schedule for a possible restart of production.

"We want to re-establish the production in the plant in the shortest possible term. Regarding re-establishing of the operation in full extent, we are talking approximately about the horizon of months rather than weeks,” says CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Unipetrol Marek Świtajewski.

This is also related to the calculation of financial losses that incurred in connection with the emergency situation. The summarising should be available during next days, depending on how quickly will finish the investigation works at the site.

Regarding the production in Chempark Záluží, the petrochemical operations remain shut down at this moment. The refinery produces mainly gasoline and diesel in a limited extent. At its minimum operation is also the production of agrochemicals. The emergency situation did not affect the refinery in Kralupy that is running at full capacity.