A North Sea oil platform has been shut down and workers taken off, following a subsea structural inspection. EnQuest said it evacuated the Thistle platform, about 125 miles (201km) north-east of Shetland, in a precautionary move on Monday evening. The…

A fire broke out on Saturday at Iran’s Abadan oil refinery located in the southwest of the country, although state media has reported that the fire was brought under control yesterday. “The refinery’s fire department contained the fire and prevented…

Fire fighters in California are working this morning to keep a massive oil refinery tank explosion under control. An explosion ripped through the NuStar storage tank last night in Crocket, California. The tank is now threatening three other nearby tankers.…

Chemical Safety Board Releases Factual Update and New Animation Detailing the Events of the Massive Explosion and Fire at the PES Refinery in Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA, October 16, 2019 – Today, the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a…

An explosion has occurred at Saudi Aramco's 305,000 b/d joint venture company with Shell, the SASREF refinery, reports say, adding that the blaze was caused by a gas leak. Two workers from the oil refinery have died, while two more…

Four people were confirmed dead and six others injured after an explosion occurred in a chemical plant in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on October 15, local authorities said. Xinhua said the blast occurred at around 11:20 a.m. in…

An explosion has caused a fire on an Iranian tanker near the coast of Saudi Arabia, Iranian media say. The vessel, from Iran's national oil company (NIOC), was 60 miles (97km) from the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The ship's…

A new video obtained by Tradewinds shows the moment a Stolt tanker exploded while preparing for a ship-to-ship cargo transfer in Busan, South Korea over the weekend. As reported, about a dozen people suffered only minor injuries when the explosion…