Numaligarh Refinery , situated at a distance of 250 KM from Guwahati and 25 KM from Golaghat, was engulfed in a devastating fire broke out at the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) of the refinery in…
A fire sparked by underground tremors tore through a coal mine in northeastern China early Wednesday, killing 26 miners and leaving several others with life-threatening injuries, state media reported. Another 50 miners were injured in the disaster, which broke out…
The bodies of six miners were recovered from a flooded mine in Ermenek, a district of the central Turkish province of Karaman, yesterday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 10. The recovery came one day after the bodies of two…
An explosion at oil and gas operator Fieldwood Energy's Echo Platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday killed one person and injured at least one, but no pollution was reported, a U.S. safety agency and the company said. The…
A fire broke out on Huadong Road in the eastern city of Haulien Monday when crewmen paving the road seemed to have accidentally ignited an underground oil pipeline belonging to a nearby military airport. The fire, which broke out at…
Two short crude oil pipelines in China operated by Sinopec Group are shutting temporarily due to worries over safety, Chinese authorities said. Sinopec has been ordered to shut the 179-km Linyi-Cangzhou pipeline and a 40-km pipeline from the Tanggu oil…
ST. PAUL PARK, Minn. - Crews were able to quickly extinguish a fire that forced an evacuation at a refinery in St. Paul Park. The fire started in a vacuum tower of the Northern Tier Energy refinery at about 10:30…
A recycling firm which was found guilty of corporate manslaughter over the death of an employee through 'inexcusable neglect' has been fined £500,000. Michael Whinfrey was killed in an explosion at the Sterecycle (Rotherham) Limited recycling plant in January 2011,…
The operating manager of the coal mine where 18 miners were trapped due to flooded water has said they measured the content of the leaked water inside the mine by “tasting” it, while five people including the operating manager were…
Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell was told a pipeline had reached the end of its life years before it spilled up to 500,000 barrels of oil, according to court documents seen by the BBC. Two spills in 2008 affected about…
