A minor leakage in the Motor spirit plant led to an explosion in the Numaligarh Refinery in Assam today. One fireman lost his life in the incident. According to the refinery, "Operation and maintenance along with fire safety team carried…
Nearly 260 people including members of Western Sahara's Polisario independence movement were killed when an Algerian military plane crashed soon after takeoff, officials said. TV footage showed crowds gathering around the smoking and flaming wreckage near the Boufarik military base, near the capital Algiers. https://youtu.be/LISBSSpJlD8 A line…
A raging oil storage tank fire on Pulau Busing was extinguished by firefighters on Tuesday (Mar 20) after a massive six-hour operation involving several agencies. In a Facebook update early on Wednesday morning, the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) said the blaze was extinguished by the…
Six people were killed by an explosion that ripped through a storage tank at a production site of sole Czech refiner and petrochemical producer Unipetrol on the morning of March 22. The deaths—confirmed by rescue officials—occurred during the cleaning…
State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. or Sinopec's 160,000 b/d Jiujiang refinery in central Jiangxi province has been operating at a reduced rate since a blast at its No 1 gasoil hydrotreater on Monday, two Sinopec refinery sources said Friday.…
Libya's Marsa el-Brega refinery and oil export terminal was rocked by an explosion and fire in the early hours of Saturday following a gas leak at its methanol plant, state-owned National Oil Corp. said Sunday. Firefighters put out the blaze,…
A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal's Kathmandu airport, with at least 17 people known to have survived. Rescuers have also pulled dead bodies from the charred wreckage of the plane, operated by Bangladeshi…
3 people have died &13 people are injured, three of them seriously, after a powerful blast followed by a massive fire ripped through a private chemical manufacturing company on Thursday night in Maharashtra's Palghar, about 150 km from Mumbai. Palghar…
A fire that broke out early Sunday morning at Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s oil refinery in Saraland, Alabama, was contained and did not cause any injuries or property damage, the WALA FOX 10 TV news website reported. The fire and…
Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission Spokesman Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said in addition to the team of divers, a workgroup will also travel to China for more investigations. According to a Farsi report by Tasnim News Agency, Hosseini stated that…
