The massive blaze which engulfed three of the Kemaman Bitumen Company's (KBC) giant crude oil tanks at the KBC industrial area in Telok Kalong here for the past three days, has been successfully extinguished last night. https://youtu.be/pBYnvSk0cVs Terengganu Fire and…
More than 100 people have been killed and dozens are missing after record torrential rains unleashed floods and landslides in western Japan. Rescuers are searching for nearly 80 people who are still accounted for, most of them in the hardest-hit…
Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited. It began production in 1976, but on July 6, 1988 it was the site of the world's most lethal offshore disaster. An explosion…
KEMAMAN: A contract worker suffered burns from a major fire which has engulfed three giant storage tanks for crude oil at a refinery here. The massive blaze is still raging almost eight hours after it broke out at 6.15pm yesterday.…
CALGARY – Two months after fire and explosions ripped through its recently purchased asphalt refinery in Superior, Wis., Husky Energy Inc. says it still doesn’t know when it will be able to restart the facility. Spokesman Mel Duvall says investigations…
Floodwaters from the swollen Little Rock River are thought to have caused the derailment of up to 40 rail cars in a train carrying crude oil from Alberta south of Doon, Iowa, on June 22. Up to 230,000 gallons (1…
On June 24 the Port of Rotterdam said a clean-up operation was underway after a product tanker punctured its hull while mooring, releasing a significant amount of heavy fuel oil. Odfjell, the owner of the vessel Bow Jubail, said in…
An Iranian oil refinery caught fire late on Wednesday in the southwestern part of the country, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, leaving six people injured. Firefighters on the scene at the Abadan refinery have brought the blaze under control,…
Twenty-four people were seriously injured in a natural gas pipeline explosion in southwest China's Guizhou Province on June 10, local authorities said. Gas leaked from a section of a gas pipeline operated by PetroChina in Shazi town of Qinglong county…
Mining companies have agreed a 5bn rand ($400m) compensation deal for tens of thousands of South African miners who contracted deadly lung diseases while working underground. The miners contracted silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling dust from gold-bearing…
