Ship Channel Closed After Tanker Fire, Fuel Spill DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A portion of the Houston Ship Channel is closed to all traffic after a tanker caught fire and spilled fuel oil. The U.S. Coast Guard said in…
Romania - One killed, Three Injured Refinery Fire Romania's Rompetrol Rafinare Petromidia refinery is operating at reduced capacity after an explosion in its vacuum distillation plant on the night of August 22 that killed one worker and injured another three.…
Malaysia's Petronas Chemicals says two killed by ammonia leak at plant An ammonia leak at a Petronas plant in Sipitang in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah killed two workers and injured three others. The incident happened at Petronas Chemicals…
https://youtu.be/oMyhy4oWATg Scientists have identified a new kind of fire which burns more cleanly. According to a recently published study from the University of Maryland, or UMD, this phenomenon, called a blue whirl, “evolves from a fire whirl and burns with…
Iran Investigates Possibillity Of Series Of Oil Industry Accidents Were Caused By Alleged Cyber Attack Bloomberg: After weeks of speculation on the cause of an unprecedented string of fires and explosions in major Iranian oil and gas facilities, Iran’s Supreme…
Explosion At Chinese Power Station Kills 21 BEIJING (AP) — A high-pressure steam pipe exploded at a power station in central China on Thursday, killing 21 people and injuring five others, an official newspaper reported. The blast occurred at a…
Peru - Fresh Oil Spill From Decades-Old Amazon Pipeline LIMA, (Reuters) - A fresh oil spill in the Peruvian Amazon was detected from the country's four-decades-old pipeline on Thursday, operator Petroperu said, bringing the number of leaks this year to…
USA - Refinery Engulfed in Flames – VIDEO https://youtu.be/0MSISOeyyNg CONVENT, La. (AP) — A fire Thursday at a refinery along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge has been extinguished. The blaze began in the H-Oil unit at…
Canada to phase out older crude oil tanker cars early due to explosion risk Canada will take older crude tanker cars out of service much earlier than originally planned, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said on July 26. Accident investigators have…
Huge Explosion At Arms Factory Azerbaijan https://youtu.be/p1x9Z39uES4 Twelve people were hospitalized Tuesday after an explosion at an arms factory in the city of Shirvan in eastern Azerbaijan, a representative of a local hospital said. The victims have been transported to the…
