Washington, DC, May 11, 2018 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) investigation team that deployed to the April 26, 2018, explosion at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin. This is a brief update of the CSB’s ongoing…
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Kuwait's state-run oil company says it has contained a fire at an onshore oil rig in the country's southwestern oilfields. The Kuwait Oil Co. said early on Monday that a fire broke out while an emergency…
Production has been suspended at a North Sea oil platform following a suspected gas leak, BBC Scotland has learned. Chevron said the Alba Northern platform was shut at 17:50 on Saturday as "gas bubbles" were spotted in the water. It…
The death toll from a fire at an unregulated oil well in Indonesia's Aceh province rose to 22 on Thursday following the deaths of four more victims, officials said. The head of the Aceh Disaster Mitigation Agency, Teuku Ahmad Dadek,…
An explosion rocked a refinery in northwestern Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring at least 11 people, forcing the evacuation of homes, schools and a hospital, and sending a plume of noxious smoke into the air. Authorities said a tank containing crude…
Washington, DC, April 26, 2018 – A four-person investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the scene of an incident that reportedly injured multiple workers this morning at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior,…
AN explosion and fire has hit Valero Energy’s 225,000 bbl/d Texas City refinery, with no injuries reported. The explosion on Thursday is thought to have occurred at the site’s 12,000 bbl/d alkylation unit, Reuters reports. It was reportedly heard 8km…
Xinhua Net reported that seven workers were injured in a coal mine blast in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on midnight. State Emergency Service said in a statement that a mixture of methane and air exploded in the "Pokrovskaya" mine at…
At least four tugs were tackling a severe fire that engulfed an oil exploration ship off Indonesia that left at least one crew member missing and injured others. An explosion in the engine room of oil research ship Geos on…
The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a new animation detailing the events of the February 8, 2017, explosion at the Packaging Corporation of America’s DeRidder, Louisiana, Pulp and Paper Mill that killed three contract workers and injured seven others.…
